AA5B,

As someone who went to a private university and always believed it a superior choice, fuck that noise. A few states have started offering free instate tuition again, at public universities.

Let’s change course here, let’s steer this baby over to the public side……

How about

  • all public funding goes to free tuition at public universities/vo-tech for everyone that wants it
  • if you insist on going to private, you can do private funding. No loans for you. No grants for you
UnderpantsWeevil,
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The bigger private unis already have endowments big enough to coast on indefinitely. Cornell has $9B for a student body of 25k. Harvard has a $51B trust fund for a student body of 30k. MIT has $24B across 12k students… When schools are this obscenely rich, tuition is a drop in the bucket.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

Plus they get tons of donations from stupid alumni.

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Progressives: “Reducing our $1.75T student debt balance by a $10B is simply too little and arriving too late to dig the current generation out of this debt crisis.”

Conservatives: “Biden’s debt forgiveness plan murders innocent little white babies.”

big fucking sigh

lennybird,
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Bail out banks: Good.

Bail out poor/middle-class: Bad!

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