Quote:I don't know who it was that first proposed the idea or where I read up on it but it always stated with me. The argument was that we have kids in school at the wrong time and wrong ages. They laid out this plan where school started at age 4 and ended at age 16. By the time they're 17 they're either in a trade school learning a skill or in a community college getting their AA over and done. So by the time these kids get to adulthood they're either college ready with an AA degree or have a skill they've received some training on and ready for the workforce.


I'd support even public funding of a system designed more like that then what we have now.

 

Don't want to derail the topic, but I really don't like the idea at all.  Ending school at 16?  Few kids are really ready to start college at that age (or trade school or community college).  This would also limit what High Schools teach significantly.  You're cutting two years of high school with this.  Not to mention making it harder for students to earn sports scholarships.  Not to mention teens need time to be teens.  College is far more serious than high school, and requires much more work to be put in.  Then you have the fact that a lot of kids have NO IDEA what they want to do at sixteen.  Some don't know what they want to do at twenty six.

 

 

Quote:The problem with student loans is they're used to fund everything else from housing to eating out to utilities and transportation and of course some fun time in addition to school. That's how kids end up with 40k in loans in 4 years.

 

You do know that it's really easy to end up with 40k in loans in 4 years from tuition and books alone, right?  The average tuition for in-state residents of state and public colleges is $9000.  It's higher for out of state students, and much higher for private colleges.  Throw in books, and it's not hard at all to reach $40k in 4 years.

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