Student Loans Debt

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by Zephyrus

School should be free all the way through college. Anything after, there should be a cost. I'm not sure if it's still the same, but a guy I used to work with, he was originally from the Ivory Coast. He lived in Paris for about 10 years and he said school is free there. I don't see why school can't be free here in the states.

It could be, if everybody wanted to pay a whole lot more in taxes. Everything could be free if we turned over all of our money to the government and they doled out stuff. But, we're not a socialist society. Many of the places where such education is free, people are also told what they will study. We tend to like our freedom to major in whatever we want.

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by AGDee

It could be, if everybody wanted to pay a whole lot more in taxes. Everything could be free if we turned over all of our money to the government and they doled out stuff. But, we're not a socialist society. Many of the places where such education is free, people are also told what they will study. We tend to like our freedom to major in whatever we want.

I was thinking the exact same thing!

I choose to become a teacher. I does suck that I need a BA degree to teach and I earn less than some people who don't even have degrees, but that just shows that we have a messed up system.

As someone else said earlier, in most states there is a teacher forgiveness loan program, but you have to meet their strict criteria of what is a critical need area, it changes every year, and they want you to usually teach an urban school.