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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes, the American education system has had to dumb itself down significantly because the attention spans of children are now under 1 minute (47 seconds to be exact). 
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We also no longer hold children back for almost any reason and there are all these “alternative” ways to graduate HS. Parents are no longer expected to be participants in their children’s education - we can’t require homework, or even proper behavior. So yeah - school has become basically just glorified daycare for the kids who chose not to do any of the work. And there are many of them, starting very young. [/quote]

Of my relatives and extended family, the ones who got GEDs or couldn't get into college are MAGA.  The ones who mocked the smart kids and the ones who liked reading are MAGA.[/quote]

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