America Should Not Offer Free College

In Nahely Garcia’s article “America NEEDS To Offer FreeCollege” She argues that America should get rid of the student loan forgiveness program and instead just offer free college instead. I don’t believe America should do that. Its not the governments job to make sure you have a higher education, it’s yours. People would take the system for granted, I’ve met too many people in my lifetime that have blown off school and classes, I’m sure that anyone reading this article knows at least one person in school that doesn’t try at all. If the government paid for everyone’s school you would get more people with the mindset of “its not my money paying for this class so who cares if I fail it”. Why should the American people be paying for these types of people going to school?

Now having said all that I do believe that college should be more affordable than it has become today. A couple decades ago someone could get a part time job to pay their way through college, today that’s now impossible. I believe if the government is going to get involved with higher education it should be making it so that students can do that again, bringing down the outrageous prices colleges and universities demand from the people attending. The government should offer more programs for people with low-income families that actually want to go to school and better themselves to get the helped they need to attend school, but not to just write everyone a blank check for college. People value things more when they have to pay for it themselves, and take things for granted when other people do.