Why Is Tuition Persuasive Essay

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College isn’t free yet! Free College Program Is the Future
College is the key to a well suitable and successful life it opens the door for us to a wide opportunity of careers. It also helps people revolutionize the world with all the educated people inventing and discovering new advanced things. I believe that us Americans, if we want to go to public college it should be totally free for the ones who aren’t financially set to pay it off without going into debt and taking out school loans. The problem is that many of Americans are choosing not to go but instead go straight into the workforce due to the fact that college tuition is very expensive to afford for low-income families and even middle-class ones too. Knowing they have the skills to …show more content…

If you add that up with the tuition it would be $18,943 and for some have no choice but to live on campus because they don’t live close to it and don’t have transportation to get their everyday day so it leads them to pay that extra fee by living there and putting them in more debt. Then there are the books you need for the classes which is $1,146 on average a year for a student. Then all the extra stuff you need like food, gas, clothes etc. it keeps adding up. That is the problem every other year since 2000 college tuition has been rising and still is, in 2004 it was $4,805 since then it nearly doubled in cost. The price causes students to be in debt and usually for more students not to attend college due to it. Overall U.S. debt for college students is 1.2 trillion dollars and that’s insane and since 2004 it has been going up constantly and is not stopping anytime soon. Seventy percent of students graduate with college debt to pay back. Even with financial aid it still isn’t enough for families to send their kids off to college and sometimes it doesn’t go to the neediest kids instead going to the rich. A lot of college students have full-time or part-time jobs just to pay for extra needed stuff like books, food, gas, and tuition. Having a job because they have no other option or money to pay for stuff which takes away valuable time from their studies to …show more content…

Students are they key to the future and college is the next step for them to take after they graduate high school to nourish them into successful young adults to help benefit others. Free access to higher education beyond high school should be totally free for the ones who have no choice but to go in debt. College education should be free just like it is free through k-12th grade. Free college will not only benefit us but also others and our country. The more people who go to college and graduate the smarter our country will be as a whole. Nowadays a college degree is required to have a well paid and guaranteed job. The company’s that are hiring for new job positions can now be taken because more Americans have the degree and are qualified for the job now. Many factors and good things come if college were free. Another one is more high school students would be motivated to get higher grades than they do now so they can get accepted into their dream college. We would see a huge increase of academic success for students in high school and then for more students attending for higher education from their excellence performance in high school and graduating with a four-year degree and benefiting the economy with their careers. What if a person is really smart

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