College Education For Americans

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College Education for Americans

Free public school education is provided to children by the States until the students complete their 12th grade. Once students pass out their school then they have to pay for their tuition fees and government no longer assist the students financially. In the United States of America in every election season whether the election is a major one or a mid-term election the issue of higher education along with the cost comes up. In order to complete the college education or the bachelor’s degree, students are now graduating with more loans as compared to any other time in history. Therefore the majority of the Americans think that college education is mainly the area of those people who are lucky and rich. Due to the lack of resources each year some of the brilliant students don't make it to college thus they stay far behind despite having the potential. So when it comes to free college education there is quite a valid reasoning on both side but there are some serious concerns about providing free education which cannot be ignored ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"M2hmXUwL","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Gonchar)","plainCitation":"(Gonchar)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1521,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/GL72GQU4"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/GL72GQU4"],"itemData":{"id":1521,"type":"post-weblog","title":"Should a College Education Be Free?","container-title":"The Learning Network","abstract":"Should students have a right to higher education, the way they now have a right to elementary and secondary education?","URL":"https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/should-a-college-education-be-free/","language":"en-US","author":[{"family":"Gonchar","given":"Michael"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015",1,23]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",4,15]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Gonchar).

The first thing about providing free education is the money which has to come from somewhere. Although providing free college education is important but if the US government decides to move towards a free education policy then it has to be decided first that from where the money will come and one way to arrange the money is by imposing taxes on the citizens, and in majority of cases a certain class of people are liable to pay these taxes which is why many Americans are uncomfortable when it comes to pay taxes. Secondly providing a free education will be quite unfair because in this case, the rich families will also get advantage from this policy. Which will further provide them opportunity to hoard their money and the poor will still suffer. So before implementing such policy it is better to find out the students who actually deserve financial help otherwise it will only serve the rich people who already can efford to go to college. Although this will be a great initiative to benefit the poor families but it should be sorted first that who are the deserving students who should avail these oppurtunities ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Sqgbeh2o","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Roberg and Bonn)","plainCitation":"(Roberg and Bonn)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1522,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/4XPY9679"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/4XPY9679"],"itemData":{"id":1522,"type":"article-journal","title":"Higher education and policing: where are we now?","container-title":"Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management","page":"469-486","volume":"27","issue":"4","author":[{"family":"Roberg","given":"Roy"},{"family":"Bonn","given":"Scott"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2004"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Roberg and Bonn).

At this moment there is no free education in the US but still, it is one of the most developing and technologically diverse countries so that means that lack of free education is not a hurdle in the development of United States of America. If we look into the lives of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg they did not even finish their college education but still they became a sensation in the world of technology, so that means that even in the absence of such policy if the US and its citizens managed to be this innovative then that means there is no need of such a policy rather those fundings can be invested in some other programs like providing employment opportunities or training to the youth so at that time better outcomes would be achieved ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"fm0X4orc","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Roberg and Bonn)","plainCitation":"(Roberg and Bonn)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1522,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/4XPY9679"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/4XPY9679"],"itemData":{"id":1522,"type":"article-journal","title":"Higher education and policing: where are we now?","container-title":"Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management","page":"469-486","volume":"27","issue":"4","author":[{"family":"Roberg","given":"Roy"},{"family":"Bonn","given":"Scott"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2004"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Roberg and Bonn).

Another reason for not prviding free education is that, once this is provided to the students then the degree of the college might not be worthy for the students. If college education or any other higher degree education is provided free to the students then it can also be like devaluing the college degree. This can lead towards the non-serious attitudes of the students and it can also result in cutting more classes because as the money is not from their pocket, therefore, they are also not supposed to get the worth of their money. As far as the current prices of the college are concerned due to the high fee of the colleges, the students are more motivated to finish their college as soon as possible in order to reduce the debts. If this financial drive is not there then it is possible that students will become lazy and demotivated ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"lECsgIkw","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Thelin)","plainCitation":"(Thelin)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1524,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/LSDRZYAJ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/4C6u8dIT/items/LSDRZYAJ"],"itemData":{"id":1524,"type":"book","title":"A history of American higher education","publisher":"JHU Press","ISBN":"1-4214-0266-1","author":[{"family":"Thelin","given":"John R."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2011"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Thelin).

On the basis of all these arguments, it is safe to say that although education is right of every citizen but providing free college education will not only be a burden on the economics of the country but at the same time, it will not benefit the students. There are students who need financial help in order to complete their education but first, those students should be screened out with the help of various standardized tests and then this facility should be provided to the needy ones. Otherwise not only it will be too expensive for the government but also it will render the students to be less motivated and lazy because they will start thinking that even if they don’t study the government will still pay their fee so instead of benefiting the students it can harm them so such policies should be implemented after proper negotiations and plannings.

Work Cited

ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Gonchar, Michael. “Should a College Education Be Free?” The Learning Network, 23 Jan. 2015, https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/should-a-college-education-be-free/.

Roberg, Roy, and Scott Bonn. “Higher Education and Policing: Where Are We Now?” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 27, no. 4, 2004, pp. 469–86.

Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. JHU Press, 2011.