B_VinylBoy
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You missed the point. I illustrated the cost of college as a comparison to the cost of public elementary and high school education. College shoud be way more expensive. I don't expect a poor inner city kid to have $3000 for a year of college. I do wish the public schools of DC, with a budget of $13000 per child, to do a better job. You don't, so we will never agree.
I highlighted the problem here.
By making college more expensive, you're essentially making it even more difficult for the poor to better themselves. Some will do their best to graduate with honors, get high school diplomas and/or GEDs, only to go for many jobs and be turned down because another kid was able to go to college at these high rates and has a degree. Even I have had to struggle landing a job. I wasn't able to finish college, but I do have over 16 years experience working as an IT temp & Computer Help Desk Specialist in various print & design firms and music entertainment companies. Yet, the new kid fresh out of college and with a degree would always get looked at first even though he has no real work experience. This is some of the unfair prejudices that people without college degrees have to prepare themselves for. And as college tuitions and student expenses continues to rise, this vicious cycle will continue and many more people who deserve opportunities to get ahead will have them pulled from underneath them all because they were born & raised poor.
BTW, I never said that schools that do have the budgets shouldn't do a better job. But many school districts don't have the funds to begin with. Others, as in the example you listed above, probably have budgets where the money doesn't get where it would benefit the students the most.
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