Zander
Platinum Member
Colleges go way aboard pushing their financial aid which for most students is a college loan. These loans will pay all your college expenses, tuition, books, room and board and if you work it right you can get some spending money out of it. There's no need to work. However, unless you're going into a high demand field and make good grades, you're pretty well screwed when you graduate. You will have a whopper of a loan that will be with you for years. You can't even escape from it by declaring bankruptcy. The big problem for society is that these loans encourage people to go to college that simply do have what it takes. It drives up the cost of college and lowers the quality of the education.Just minutes ago was talking with a lady who has a daughter in college. Kid has worked part-time since she was big enough to get neighbors to "hire" her for little gardening jobs and once of legal age, worked summers through high school. She accumulated enough to cover the most of the first couple of years of college.
Now she's constantly being barraged by offers of easy-to-get BIG student loans.
She doesn't want any and makes no secret of it but there are a hell of a lot of people and "official" college "authorities" really pressuring.
And that I call BULLSHIT!
Oughta be criminal punishment for people who push young adults into taking easy money and at least jail time for those who do pimp for student loans without painting the full picture of a lifetime in servitude.
I agree.