So, to start, a lot of HS students with aspirations of going to a university of some sort have to spend a decent amount of their last year or 2 trying to court different colleges for scholarships (most of which are colleges you’ve never heard of offering like $400 off or something) and free ride scholarships are (and this is admittedly anecdotal) unheard of in my area (suburb near major city). Should more socialist minded youth without the means to go to college find jobs? I don’t say this out of an anti-education perspective or some sort of belief that colleges are too liberal of institutions or anything, if it was free for families to send their children to school, I’d be all for it. What do yall think? And feel free to give me book suggestions or quotes from Leftists if you have any that may apply to this, specifically on the topic of the US where college costs more annually on average than any other nation.
I think if u can swing it u should go for it. I mean the median income for someone with a 4 year degree is 25k higher than highschool so if u go 40k or 50k into debt it pays for itself pretty quick. Also as my grandfather always says “the shovel is heavier than the pen”.
Also i find it interesting that good scholarships are hard to find in ur area, in florida we have brightfutures which if u meet the requirements u get it, no matter how many people apply and it pretty easy to meet the retirements specially for the 70% one but even the one that pays 100% its not that crazy, do other states not have stuff like that? people always talk shit about florida but i have found it to be a pretty good place to live… but to be fair to the florida haters brightfutures is actually insidious as fuck because its funded by the profit from the powerball lottery aka the poverty tax and most scholarships go to labor aristocracy/middle class kids.