For a long time people were screaming, "Gotta have a HS diploma, Gotta have a HS diploma", I mean it was like chicken little! There did that get us? We have basketball/football players that can barely read and write but they graduate college with a degree. We have students that get passed though grades just so the teacher won't have to deal them, "Better luck to the guy next year!!". Bottom line is education starts at home. If Mom and Dad aren't sitting down with their kids reading books to them and listen to their children read, then it will never work. If the parents do not look at report cards, talk to their kids teacher, get involved in what's going on, then it will never work.
But let's get back to this FREE thing. We have FREE college now. It's called join the Military. Plain and simply, join the Army. Don't like the Army, ok there are another three branches plus the Coast Guard out there. After 9-11 the Dept. of Defense (DOD) change the GI Bill. Now if you give them three years, you're covered 100% for your education . A full four year degree, that covers tuition in any state school of your residence, $1000.00 a year for books and supplies, and housing to the max of an E-5's Basic Allowance for housing (BAH) in the area in which you live. The BAH will come out to be $1000 to $1500 per month. If you can't be a poor student striving to make a better life for yourself and live off that than you got a problem.
Some people say, but Dave not all people can be Soldiers? And I agree with you, I've seen many of Shit Bags I would have kicked out. But let's look at the civilian world. UPS has tuition reimbursement. Most of those guys work four hour shifts which would be perfect for a college student. Beyond that Micky D's, BK, Taco Bell, etc... They have the same. Wally World, gas stations, every corporation out there has some type of assistance. Add all that with normal state and fed. aid and you can go to school. FACT, just FACT. Now I'm not saying you can go to the bar and party every night but you can go to school. So, some say Mommy and Daddy make to much money for aid and they can't/won't pay for me to go to school.
Let's look at that:
168 hrs in the week, Full time load is 12 hrs a week
-12
156 left, They say for every hour in the classroom, you have to do three outside to study/papers, etc..
-36
120 left, Let's give then eight hours of sleep a night
-56
64 left, That's 64 hours a week to go to WORK, holy shit, did I just say WORK. That's work play do whatever you can afford to do. I don't care, I just don't want to pay for your Spring Break, Your Frat parties, your basting in beer weekends. Do it yourself. It cam be done.
When are we going to get away from this FREE Shit?? Nothing is FREE, someone has to pay for it!!!
