Students Should Not Be Paid In Public School

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Imagine, being thousands of dollars in dept only for the reason that you made the decision to drop out. The average debt all graduating seniors with student loans is $30,000. And the average debt for an adult is $5,700. Students should not be required to pay back the money used to educate them, if they drop out.
Public Schooling is free up until college. This is possible through federal, state, and local tax money. Everyday American citizens are giving a portion of their hard worked money, to give student the opportunity to be schooled k-12 free. It cost $10,616 to send a student to public school for a year. But, if a drop out were to pay that money back, it would be going to the government. Rather than the ones who worked for the money in

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