It used to be, how you financed your college education was a factor in hiring decisions. A person who financed more of their education had an advantage over someone who had their education paid for via loans or from the “Bank of Mom and Dad.”
YES!
For some reason people who can go to war, be put to death or in prison for life enter into a contract, vote, get married, sit on a jury that renders a death penalty, buy a house, car, boat, or vacation time share somehow can not figure out how to pay for college or health insurance.
They are adults at 18. It is time we stop coddling the ‘leastest’ generation. It is time for the special snowflakes to grow the Hell up.
I believe college students should take out loans and pay for their education because it’s an incentive to do well.
I see nothing wrong with a parent stepping in to pay for it if they can afford it but on two conditions: The kid still takes out the loan in his or her name and if they graduate on time with a 3.0 or better average then let the parent take care of it if they can.
The student fails.. they own it.
How people arrange their private, personal financial affairs is not anybody else’s business provided it’s within the law.
All college loans should be originated by the institution of higher learning to be attended, though, in my opinion, and dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Put them on the hook for their flimsy diploma mill scams and graduates that can’t even get a job, not the American public.
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! No one should pay but the child.
If they are 18 years old, they are not children.
That said, if parents are willing and able to help their kid pay for college, whatever. To each his own.
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18 years old = adulthood. The parent has no obligation.
Yes! Kids need to put some ‘skin in the game’ and invest in their own future. If they know they’re going to have to pony up, maybe they’ll think more seriously about whether or not they NEED to go to college, and if they do, what it is they want to study that will allow them to be self-sufficient in the future.
Yes. They are adults.
Regardless of who pays for college the price should be the same. Successful people don’t deserve to be penalized.
In our state, and maybe in all of them, a special ed student is incorporated with all other students, but he/she is given special consideration on their grades. Therefore, an otherwise “F” student can be in one of our school’s top ten for academics...conceivably even be valedictorian.
Also, they are not permitted to fail the state graduation exam, so they are given their diploma whether they pass those tests or not. And even though the state is going to a new graduation exam, the automatic passing of the special ed student is a given. That won’t change. (Oddly, though, the actual score of the student counts against his/her teacher, but not against the school district or the state. This whole thing is so odd.)
My whole point is that this is PUBLIC education that is decreed by law to be paid for entirely by the state. Student’s do not have tuition fees.
I’m positive that if “free college (tax payer paid college)” becomes the norm that these rules will continue into college.
We’ll have special ed “degrees” and special ed “grades” and eventually all levels of PhDs and other doctoral level degrees given on the basis of political correctness and not on the basis of achievement.
Dentist anyone???