Is going to college really worth it? There is no doubt about it, the rising cost of tuition in this country is making college a worse and worse deal for American students. The college costs are rising faster than health care or gas prices in most cases students tend to say that if a teacher has a top student, he or she is the one who gets good grades. However, according to Education Sector, a non-profit education think tank, only 57 percent of bachelor degree students graduate in six years. Colleges restrict young people’s lives because after college they have debt of $50,000 or more to repay due to student loans.
School also doesn’t start there until the age of seven which is different than here; we usually start at four or five. There is one thing that they do that makes their educational system leaps and bounds above ours, they make college free (Haglund)! Compare that to the United States where you are paying sometimes up to $50,000 a year to attend a prestigious university. This is why our educational system is failing. College is too expensive for the middle-class man to afford.
This year's college graduates will be entering a wretched job market, where there are, by some estimates, five candidates for every opening. Perhaps this experience will give you the strength to deal with future challenges. But one of those challenges -- not
While that might be the case in many instances, freedom of speech is a more positive advantage than a negative threat and abridging it is against the First Amendment. In his essay "Regulating Racist Speech on Campus", Charles Lawrence writes "I am troubled that we have not listened to the real victims, that we have shown so little understanding of their injury, and that we have abandoned those whose, race, gender, or sexual preference countinues to make them second- class citizens." He implies that freedom of speech thretens minorities because it allows racial insults and offensive speech. However, the same took that is used against minorities can be used to fight back. Freedom of speech can be used for them to defend themselves.
Most christian colleges and 7 other schools offer the option as a strategy boost enrollments in tough economic times. In last fall’s survey, 62 percent said the economy affected where they enrolled. Amherst and Pomona, and other wealthy colleges have eliminated loans from financial-aid packages. Private schools with a little endowment rarely have the option and would lose students to lower-priced public universities. President Peter Samuelson, of a 3 year-old company called LRAP Association uses pooled funds to repay loans for graduates who qualify and that no more than 20 percent of participating students will need the money or for more than a few years.
Re-birthing Dreams Shocking statistics suggest a new kind of recession in today's age of knowledge: specifically, the decline of American college graduates, which is caused by students dropping out of school. As David Leonhardt informs the readers of the New York Times, the majority of dropouts are lower-income students. In his article, "The College Dropout Boom," Leonhardt addresses the issue further by explaining why the poor leave college, how they need help, and how dropping out negatively impacts their lives. Leonhardt's extensive propositions are united by a common thread: money. In other words, the contemporary pressure for money influences many lower-income students to enter college with inadequate funds, which ultimately forces them to drop out of college.
Sometimes parents, faculty and others tend to idealize their college experience and remember it as that peaceful time when they had few worries or responsibilities. To students currently attending college, however, the process is often stressful and frustrating. The competition for grades, the need to perform, relationships, career choice, and many other aspects of the college environment cause stress. Before condemning stress outright, we need to understand that stress is only harmful when it is excessive. Much of the stress that we all experience is helpful and stimulating.
Education Debt in the United States and Abroad and Finding a Possible Solution “The cost of college tuition has skyrocketed with huge increases over the past five years as college aid has been reduced by states budgets. By every indication, college is now more expensive than it has ever been, making it out of reach of not only poor Americans, but even middle class ones” (Jilani). The debt attained by those seeking higher education in the United States is a far cry from many countries. In contrast, the cost of tuition in the United States has continued to rise to the tune of approximately 1.2 trillion dollars to date with no realistic solution to alleviate the situation. “The average cost per year for attending
Prices are rising while the family income is not. A scarce in money also causes another big problem for families- foreclosure on their house. If a family goes homeless, it continues to spiral downhill. Unemployment rates have always been increasing, which mean 1) people have stopped looking for a job or 2) people just cannot get a job. Either way, its caused America to be in a recession for over four years.
Joblessness and persistent unemployment continues to drive the poverty rate higher. The economic damage extends to the broader workforce and the country in general, through lost wages, income and wealth, as well as higher poverty. The national unemployment rate is currently 9.1%, and it has been at or above 8.8% for the past 28 months. The underemployment rate has remained between 15.7% and 17.4% since the spring of 2009, and it currently stands at 16.1% (Mishel). Because of the current state the economy is in, it has been difficult for people to earn a decent paycheck or even sometimes find a job to support their families.