I paid a cash sum at birth and never had to worry again; college was paid for, period. I believe it was around 8 grand and paid out a bit over 225.
I used to think it was the parent's responsibility to put their kids through college. For many years there have been programs where if the parents put a little money down in grammar school and paid a modest monthly payment, at 18 college was paid for. Every parent could afford that.
But with college costing 6 figures or so and the very real possibility that a college education does not guaranty a decent job, I see less reason for parents to bother. Too many students choose a party school anyway, which I do not see as a parent's responsibility at all.
The really motivated students can get scholarships and the rest can go to junior college as a stepping stone to more education.
If someone truly wants an education, they can have one. It's just a question if it's worth the hard work and the cost.
I think they should probably cap it. Like make a law colleges cant cost over so much, charge so much or is only allowed so much funding. There is some great colleges but they seem to have way more than they need and seem to just jack up the price out of a students necessity.
I honestly dont see the purpose in having these regulated text books. You could could get the same material for 10-20$ at the book store but for the college/high-school textbook its 75-over 200$. Why not just assign cheaper books or just tell the students what they need to study? Is it really that hard?
You can find a lot of them as PDFs online for free, provided the class doesn't do that bullshit where they make you buy the special edition that changes every year so you can't rent, buy used or sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. One class I had to buy a 2000-something page LOOSE LEAF (what the fuck?!) biology textbook that's now just taking up way too much space on my bookshelf
Cheaper books don't exist. Part of what makes them expensive is the amount of information in the book. Now some books are a rip off and schools may promote a specific author for shady reasons, but a science book is going to be more expensive than a lit book. And of course some books have constant new editions that make it difficult to buy the cheaper ones, but not all schools do this. I know they tried to regulate it at a school near me but politics are politics and it didnt quite happen.
As for parents paying for school, it's a nice idea but not feasible. My sister in law is choosing a retirement fund over school for her kids because they can take out loans for that. There are no loans for retirement.
Loans are not a bad way to go, twenty years ago. They are out of control now. But still not impossible if you look around.
First off, college text books are a very small market. Nothing dictates that the same text book must be used for the same class in different schools. So all the expense of writing and printing these books must be born by only several thousand books sold, instead of several hundred thousand sales for a 'best seller' novel, for instance.
I thought used text books were available at campus book stores; is that no longer true? There are specialty book selling sites like alibris that have all kinds of books including text books. A little preplanning and all your text books could be in your hands for the first day of class.
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I paid a cash sum at birth and never had to worry again; college was paid for, period. I believe it was around 8 grand and paid out a bit over 225.
I used to think it was the parent's responsibility to put their kids through college. For many years there have been programs where if the parents put a little money down in grammar school and paid a modest monthly payment, at 18 college was paid for. Every parent could afford that.
But with college costing 6 figures or so and the very real possibility that a college education does not guaranty a decent job, I see less reason for parents to bother. Too many students choose a party school anyway, which I do not see as a parent's responsibility at all.
The really motivated students can get scholarships and the rest can go to junior college as a stepping stone to more education.
If someone truly wants an education, they can have one. It's just a question if it's worth the hard work and the cost.
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I think they should probably cap it. Like make a law colleges cant cost over so much, charge so much or is only allowed so much funding. There is some great colleges but they seem to have way more than they need and seem to just jack up the price out of a students necessity.
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Yea college is expensive as fuck. And don't get me started on those dumb ass books.
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I honestly dont see the purpose in having these regulated text books. You could could get the same material for 10-20$ at the book store but for the college/high-school textbook its 75-over 200$. Why not just assign cheaper books or just tell the students what they need to study? Is it really that hard?
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You can find a lot of them as PDFs online for free, provided the class doesn't do that bullshit where they make you buy the special edition that changes every year so you can't rent, buy used or sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. One class I had to buy a 2000-something page LOOSE LEAF (what the fuck?!) biology textbook that's now just taking up way too much space on my bookshelf
Cheaper books don't exist. Part of what makes them expensive is the amount of information in the book. Now some books are a rip off and schools may promote a specific author for shady reasons, but a science book is going to be more expensive than a lit book. And of course some books have constant new editions that make it difficult to buy the cheaper ones, but not all schools do this. I know they tried to regulate it at a school near me but politics are politics and it didnt quite happen.
As for parents paying for school, it's a nice idea but not feasible. My sister in law is choosing a retirement fund over school for her kids because they can take out loans for that. There are no loans for retirement.
Loans are not a bad way to go, twenty years ago. They are out of control now. But still not impossible if you look around.
First off, college text books are a very small market. Nothing dictates that the same text book must be used for the same class in different schools. So all the expense of writing and printing these books must be born by only several thousand books sold, instead of several hundred thousand sales for a 'best seller' novel, for instance.
I thought used text books were available at campus book stores; is that no longer true? There are specialty book selling sites like alibris that have all kinds of books including text books. A little preplanning and all your text books could be in your hands for the first day of class.