Let us stipulate that not everyone is college material. Even for such ludicrous majors as Gender Studies or pretty much anything ending in “Studies.” What this country desperately needs is more technical and vocational training, preparation to become tax-paying workers.
Anyone actually read the proposal? What it requires? That occupational/skilled trades are included in the proposal?
You can still be against it, but maybe read what it actually is before you decide.
Which proposal? Bernie's? Or something presented in the article? I read article.
Giving consideration to Bernie's proposal is predicated on a false premise. It's not the federal government's job to take money from you to pay for my college education or welding trade school.
Right. Cause without the government, no one will go to college.
Government interference distorts markers, even the educational markets. Under our current paradigm, enrollment would most certainly plummet. But as colleges actually have to compete for students, so might the costs also plummet.Actually, if the government would stop guaranteeing student loans, yes, the college enrollment rate would plummet.
So even though you are being sarcastic, you are right. Just not in the way that you think.
Federal government? No. Meddling in education is not a power given it in the Constitution.Obama's name is the only one in the article, unless I missed something.
Is it the government's job to take money from you to pay for high school? Middle school? Elementary school? Or is public education of any kind verboten?
Anti-education.
It shows.
Right.
Cause if the government doesn't do it, it can't get done.
We seem to be able to fund wars without much of a problem....and then leave behind billions in equipment (and in the case of southeast Asia, billions in hard cash). How many kids could go from pre-school to doctorates on that waste?
I'd rather see the Johnson County schools get the dollars associated with surplus MRAPs than give the sheriff a new toy. Maybe that's just me.....
We fund drug intediction and prison systems.
I'm sure you could get by with home schooling. After all, rugged individualists acting by themselves in their own self interest built the morass we live in today.