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You think “equal opportunity” means giving every Tom, Dick, and Harry a free education - paid for by other people? They all have the opportunity for college, and if they’re poor, Pell Grants can pay for half. The other half they can borrow or have jobs.
If they’re really bright, they can also win paid academic scholarships.
But forcing everyone to finance the college education of all kids means:
1) at least half will drop out, since they were not college material to start with, and we’ve had to pay a year or two for them to party
2) the caliber of a college education will drop even further
News flash: the answer to all problems is NOT to make other people hand over their earnings
It's amazing how you just blather about things you know nothing about!
You say that "if they’re poor, Pell Grants can pay for half"
What do you think Pell Grants are? They are the government paying for people's education, idiot!
In the Soviet Union, most people did not choose to go to college because they did not want to, or they could not maintain good grades.
Of course, everyone in the Soviet Union had a job, a place to live and all their basic needs taken care of. Education standards were very high because the educational system didn't have to cater to legions of rich spoiled idiots as they do in the U.S.
The answer to all problems is to distribute wealth to the people that do actual productive work, and not to the legions of professional thieves that get all the money in the U.S.