Even the cost of a private college is extremely ten times the expense of a community or state school. I think it is ridiculous on how much money we spend for college to just earn a degree.
“In February 1970, Harvard University broke the bad news to students in their parents: Tuition was going up” (Schoen). The cost of school in the fall in “1971 by 200-to 2,600” (Schoen).
“It used to be that once in an undergraduate career tuition would increase,” acting dean John T. Dunlop told the crimsons, the student newspaper. “But from now on, unless inflation is halted, there’s no choice in the matter but to continue raising tuition.” Basically saying that rising the price of college continues until someone stops this.
As we can see in 2016 this fall Harvard University without room and board the cost had risen “17times the 1971-1972 cost, which sets back 42,278” (Schoen).
By every year the cost for college continues to rise. We build more schools which means we need more workers and need a salary to pay them. Not even with just school but building a facility for sports and hiring coaches.
If you look at this link, it shows a graph and how much the percentage increase from way back to today’s cost of colleges. http://public.tableau.com/shared/8WKM8MQSY?:display_count=yes
As you can see, the college expense is extremely a lot of money and families cannot afford the price of college even with financial aid. Families struggle to pay for their child’s education because the cost is so high.
I agree that college costs are way too high. So many different job titles require a college education, to get this you have to pay the large fees in college, most college students need a part time job to afford college, then after college they need a great job to continue to pay off college. Its crazy to think that we have to spend thousands of dollars to get an education, just to get a job and make enough money to get by.
ReplyDeleteNon-traditional student speaking from personal experience here. When I was 18 I enrolled in the local community college, I got a full-ride financially because my parents did not make nearly enough for me to get my foot in the door, so I was grateful federal financial aid was able to pick up the majority of my expenses. After 2 years I had to drop out because of a family illness, and when I attempted to come back (at 24) I was cut off from federal funding (could no longer claim my parents income) and told that I make too much money (@ $10 an hr) to qualify for federal aid.
ReplyDeleteMy situation has changed a bit, since then I have relocated to another state, have taken out federal loans, and have had tremendous help from my significant other in order to afford the expenses of college. But largely the expense still falls on me, besides keeping up with coursework I have to maintain 30-40 hrs at my job to maintain my full-time benefits...because college is so expensive I don't think I ever expected my parents to pick up that bill.
"we pay for public and private colleges but why do we not pay for public high school?"
ReplyDeleteYou have that backwards. The justification for public funding of elementary and secondary school is because of a recognition that a republic requires an educated populace. We do not have public funding for higher education because after WWII, very few people either needed to, or wanted to, go to college.
There is now a push for public funding for college, to which I ask "who's going to pay for it, and how?" While paying for another four years of schooling will help the unemployment rate, it punishes those people (like my son) who loathe traditional education.
This is a very interesting blog to discuss. But I notice that right off the bat the title does not follow the criteria you are writing about. At first, I thought this blog would be directly about college and not touch base on high school costs. I think that if you had a more compromising title this argument would have made more sense in a readers perspective. Definitely as you go on you discuss more about the broader topic of how college is really expensive. But since you touched base on high school education as well it would have made more sense if the title was more connecting.
ReplyDeleteLots of social problem are derived from low education level. According to studies, mass incarceration, poverty, youth committing crimes and obesity are related to low education level. If colleges keep raising tuition and people aren't able to afford it, will they just give up further studying? If that's the case then it will only generate more social problems.
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