When I was attending Mercer Island High School my teachers were stressing the fact that you need to go to college. I didn’t only hear it from them; I also heard this from my parents and counselors. I couldn’t understand why it was so important at the time because I was more into playing sports and being a child or young adult if you will. After my senior year it began to click on why it was so important to go to school because you could start to build your life. Or as Thomas Friedman says in his book The World Is Flat, that is can give you ambition. There are lots of jobs but more people that jobs that are offered. So to give yourself an edge you should go to school and get a college degree to benefit. But how fair would it be if community college was free? If community college was free in Yakima Valley some students could lose their ambition because it is given to them instead of working towards it. That being said their curiosity and passion could increase for some students because they are given a shot at something they thought was out of reach. For the education gap at the top students I think having students pay for their tuition could make them want to be interested in subject like math, science, and engineering since they are paying money for them. Ambition is something that is created from within and each person is capable of doing so. If you want a job the only thing that is stopping you is you. In the book The World Is Flat it states, ‘When they send jobs abroad, they not only save 75 percent on wages, they get 100 percent increase in productivity. (354)” We have to do a better job of making college interesting because the U.S. is so viable of being outsourced. Some may think that if we sent more students to school that the graduate numbers will increase but other may see a problem with classroom sizes, teaching ability, and spacing. Let’s not forget we are talking about community college. Where classrooms are only about 25-30 kids per teacher here in Yakima Valley. Freidman says, “In an academic sense we lost our hunger (except for cheerleading and football and failing bond measures)” (357). I feel he is absolutely right because we spend more money on nonsense that doesn’t help our country instead of something that everyone could use, which is intelligence. Intelligence as the book The World Is Flat sees it comes from curiosity and passion (CQ+ PQ= IQ).
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Bill Gates said, “Young Chinese, Indians, and Poles are not racing us to the bottom. They are racing us to the top. They do not want to work for us; they don’t even want to be us. They want to dominate us (365)”. How could we expect some of our students who are getting free tuition at community college to compete with students abroad who are getting a higher education? Curiosity and passion of a student can take them a long ways and money shouldn’t be an issue of holding them back because that is wrong. But if you are really driven schools are able to grant scholarships for students who are worthy of them. There would be no need to have free tuition because the ones that deserve it are already getting it. The only student that we have read about that was able to get his tuition paid for was Caesar Sanchez. He was so happy because he got light in a tunnel where he thought there was none. He was so excited because his family didn’t have enough money to put up for him to go to college and when he was granted the money his world changed. Caesar Sanchez said, “I finally have a shot, I have a chance to do something with my life.” I’m sure that there are more people like Sanchez but unfortunately they weren’t able to get their tuition paid for. That seems unfair because what is so different from Caesar Sanchez than the rest of the students? Does he perform better in classes? In the book Class Matters, there is a chapter called No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle by Timothy Egan expresses how Jeff Martinelli wished he never dropped out of school. Martinelli was not
Bill Gates said, “Young Chinese, Indians, and Poles are not racing us to the bottom. They are racing us to the top. They do not want to work for us; they don’t even want to be us. They want to dominate us (365)”. How could we expect some of our students who are getting free tuition at community college to compete with students abroad who are getting a higher education? Curiosity and passion of a student can take them a long ways and money shouldn’t be an issue of holding them back because that is wrong. But if you are really driven schools are able to grant scholarships for students who are worthy of them. There would be no need to have free tuition because the ones that deserve it are already getting it. The only student that we have read about that was able to get his tuition paid for was Caesar Sanchez. He was so happy because he got light in a tunnel where he thought there was none. He was so excited because his family didn’t have enough money to put up for him to go to college and when he was granted the money his world changed. Caesar Sanchez said, “I finally have a shot, I have a chance to do something with my life.” I’m sure that there are more people like Sanchez but unfortunately they weren’t able to get their tuition paid for. That seems unfair because what is so different from Caesar Sanchez than the rest of the students? Does he perform better in classes? In the book Class Matters, there is a chapter called No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle by Timothy Egan expresses how Jeff Martinelli wished he never dropped out of school. Martinelli was not