Hell if I know, I went to high school in the hood albeit in a very good public education program. Essentially my guidance counselor told me not to get a girl pregnant, bring a gun to school, or bring a sharpened pool cue to a gunfight off school property.
I agree definitely need to reorganize colleges. That said forgiving debt is like giving someone Tylenol for a fever. It's a symptom and doesn't address all the reasons why college is so expensive and why people who don't need college are pushed into going.
I mean, would you prefer the alternative??
well, if you don't have a graduate degree, and you have racked up 50k of student debt. Then you were fucking lazy as shit and wanted to do what your friends were doing even though it wasn't viable. These people are the ones that had shit ass grades and couldn't even qualify for the smallest scholarships.
I've thought about a scaled loan system based on projections of income and career viability. I'm sure there are holes to be poked in that idea, but degrees in esoteric fields without real world applications could be viewed as a sort of "luxury certs" and treated as such. Then again, this conversation is out of my wheelhouse, so what do I know?
I'm not going to disagree with this, but at the point of implementation there will be people saying how unfair it is to those under the old system. Not like this could be done retroactively in any fair manner, so how to take the next step?
I like your line of thinking, but I'm wondering if not doing the opposite would be better. That is to say, for fields where we as a society need people (STEM, doctors, finance, etc.) we make schooling easier to finance. If someone has the money and wants to learn about Comparative Asian Anal Massage, well more power to them...
Just saw the advertisement literally today for the army.. “Don’t get buried in debt.” It was on pandora.
That's what I was getting at. The more likely your degree is to contribute to the betterment of society the lower the fee. Something along those lines.
