President Obama recently announced in a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee, “Community college should be as free and universal in America as high school is today”. Community college in Tennessee is currently tuition free and saves students $3,800 in annual tuition costs as mentioned in the PBS. In the first year that Tennessee offered the tuition free college 57,000 high school seniors signed up for the programs that include counseling and mentors (PBS). Obama’s tuition free community college plan would increase the amount of students that currently attend college. There would be requirements in place to have your tuition waived; you would have have a minimum of 2.5 GPA and would have to be at least a half-time
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I still maintain that all people should be granted tuition free college, because some college is way better than no college. In 2013 a poll showed that 62 percent of people believe that they could not afford college. (Huffington Post) In my opinion that fact is completely insane; of course students typically don’t have all the money to pay for college upfront, but the thought of 62 percent not being able to afford college is insane. As mentioned in an article by Kyla Calvert Mason, an author for PBS, “Meanwhile, Josh Wyner, director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, argued that making two years of community college as universal as a high school diploma would boost economic growth and help close the country’s growing wealth gap”. This tells us that people within community colleges are onboard with Obama’s plan. If you have people from colleges saying that this opportunity not only will benefit the people wanting to go to school, but also the country itself, then I believe that it’s a great plan. When the United States is compared to other countries based on education, we fall far behind other countries like Germany, that has tuition free …show more content…
Leaving all political views aside, this could greatly impact society. This opportunity will give the poor, single parents, war veterans a chance at receiving higher education. As I keep saying, “some college is better than none”, because there are so many people that I work with at McDonalds, and I know for a fact that if my managers went to college, then they would manage the restaurant in a better and more beneficial way. You cannot expect to throw people into jobs in this country without any experience. Education is for everyone, which is why I believe that all should receive higher education for free. Remember that there are people who barely have enough to eat, and this could be those people’s way to stabilize themselves. So, who’s side will you take? Would you rather better the education of the wealthy, or would you want all people to have a fair chance at receiving higher
I still maintain that all people should be granted tuition free college, because some college is way better than no college. In 2013 a poll showed that 62 percent of people believe that they could not afford college. (Huffington Post) In my opinion that fact is completely insane; of course students typically don’t have all the money to pay for college upfront, but the thought of 62 percent not being able to afford college is insane. As mentioned in an article by Kyla Calvert Mason, an author for PBS, “Meanwhile, Josh Wyner, director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, argued that making two years of community college as universal as a high school diploma would boost economic growth and help close the country’s growing wealth gap”. This tells us that people within community colleges are onboard with Obama’s plan. If you have people from colleges saying that this opportunity not only will benefit the people wanting to go to school, but also the country itself, then I believe that it’s a great plan. When the United States is compared to other countries based on education, we fall far behind other countries like Germany, that has tuition free …show more content…
Leaving all political views aside, this could greatly impact society. This opportunity will give the poor, single parents, war veterans a chance at receiving higher education. As I keep saying, “some college is better than none”, because there are so many people that I work with at McDonalds, and I know for a fact that if my managers went to college, then they would manage the restaurant in a better and more beneficial way. You cannot expect to throw people into jobs in this country without any experience. Education is for everyone, which is why I believe that all should receive higher education for free. Remember that there are people who barely have enough to eat, and this could be those people’s way to stabilize themselves. So, who’s side will you take? Would you rather better the education of the wealthy, or would you want all people to have a fair chance at receiving higher