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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should he be forgiving loans?[/quote]

Why should people have to take out massive loans just to get an education in the first place?[/quote]

I disagree with Trump on more or less everything, but shouldn’t that all depend on what students decide to study? I’ll gladly subsidize more doctors or teachers in rural communities no one wants to work in, but not let’s say, a $60k per year degree in underwater basketweaving from a private college. [/quote]

What you’re really saying is that you’re willing to subsidize a vocational education (engineering, doctors, nurses, teachers) not traditional college/university education (philosophy, English literature, etc) which is meant to expand the mind. It seems more and more people treat college/universities as vocational schools for white collar jobs. It is a wonder that students are allowed electives.[/quote]

Half of Americas high school grads read and do math at a 7 or 8th grade level.

They shouldn’t be using anyone’s money for college unless they start putting up real work and performance. [/quote]

The kids who can only read and do math at a 7th or 8th grade level aren't the ones going to college, nimrod.[/quote]

I guess you missed this article the article below that got a lot of attention when it was first published. I can confirm as the parent of a senior in a highly competitive college that school assignments in high school and college did not involve reading a lot of actual books from cover to cover but excerpts from books or short articles. In contrast, I had to read dozens of whole books in HS and college and write 15-20 page papers vs. the 3-5 page papers being assigned now.

THE ELITE COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO CAN’T READ BOOKS
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/[/quote]

MCPS just has you read sections and excerpts. [/quote]
They do some of this, but my DC in MCPS did read a few books in HS.[/quote]

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