OBAMA, PLEASE STOP OUT OF CONTROL COLLEGE TUITION !
The price of a four year college is rapidly climbing beyond the means of normal Americans. Yesterday there were rallies around the country at college campuses by angry students who were protesting the ever rising cost of an education along with more and more cuts. You can read about it here.
The cost of a college degree is simply not worth what it costs today and one can only wonder what it will cost in the future. There are Obama school grants that the President has proposed to the tune of 900 million, most of which would go as an incentive for high schools to get their acts together. In order to get any part of that grant money, schools would have to show that they are making a turn around in many different ways including sometimes firing the current staff. You can read about that story here.
Why is it that even with the help of stimulus money from the federal government, more and more high schools and colleges are having to cut back and increase classroom sizes? Our children are not getting the best education they could be and the price keeps going up! What has happened to our education system? Private colleges can charge what they want but there are hundreds of state schools that the government could lower the cost so that average people can pay.
The Obama stimulus grants that are being given out seem to be going just to big businesses to bail them out. Shouldn’t our education system be getting a shot in the arm as well? Every President seems to act like they are big on education but it keeps on getting worse and worse all the while becoming more expensive at the same time!
No wonder there is great interest for Obama back to school grants for moms and anyone else that can get them. Right now, you have to be rich to go to a good college or you will end up deep in debt. We can’t have all our college graduates be in debt from student loans for the rest of their lives and the Obama student loans proposal will not help very much if it is passed. While lower interest rates for student loans would be nice, what we need desperately right now is lower tuition for everyone!
