Should the government pay for students to go to college? At least till the age of 24?
If you’re doing a study, then you’d know that there are over 18 million students presently enrolled in public and private colleges/universities. At an avg. cost of 15,000 per student for tuition alone, nothing else, this is 270 billion dollars and doesn’t include any funding for books, housing, day to day expenses, transportation………. parties or beer, Heavens!! Nor does this rough estimate even begin to address the many millions more students that are not in college, I would not even try to estimate how many high school students do not go to college. I think that it takes very little imagination to see how this idea, while grand in concept, is not presently practical nor does it have a meaningful incentive for excellence. If every high school student knew, up front, that they would be entitled to go to college, where’s the incentive to excel? That alone is one of the greatest reasons NOT TO advocate such a program. All Universities presently have incentive based scholarship progra
