width="300">So, they are more or less just party money for temporary college students.
Our state used to pay tuition after the first semester and I think only 70% were graduating.
My DIL paid her way through college and used to get furious about those who were going for free and flunked out over and over.
Education Department Undersecretary Ted Mitchell last month lauded Pell grants as “one of the key levers that we have” to increase college completion rates.
I’d fire someone who said that
The government needs to get out of the education business, the education funding business, and the education propping up business. I taught as an adjunct instructor and those poor kids didn’t know Shit from Shinola. I asked one poor sap why he was in college and he told me “ Get the bucks, man.”
Almost as if it was a redistribution of wealth. ;)
This taxpayer money is given to students graduating from high school when they can’t read or write. They have no business in college, and we are wasting money we don’t have only to see them fail.
width="300">They are a taxpayer rip-off, as I see it. Yes, I am certain they help a few, but I know a Community College prof who tells me that the Black girls all know the game. You sign up for classes to get the grant, then the day after your check arrives, you drop all classes. Sign up again the following semester and do it all over again. If they have (B) or (F) after their name, it more than likely goes without saying there will be no further action, looking into whether this is fraud or not. This is thousands of dollars per student doing this.