An Idea for Student Debt Relief

My idea could also be paired with student-loan reform, where subsidized/government loans are only available on certain conditions. For example, you need to qualify for them either with elite grades or by choosing a highly in-demand major.
Many states are already doing this.
 
Better to discourage kids from taking a 4 year vacation from the real world via worthless degrees.

I'm for funding trade programs instead of college, and expanding existing programs for worthwhile degrees that allow you to work off your loans via community service.

Who will teach English and math to kids? Who will do engineering? Or chemistry?

You don't believe those are worthwhile degrees?

Many kids going to college are not from wealthy families. So they borrow in order to get a degree.
New Mexico just instituted a program to make undergraduate college free to residents.

That didn't answer the question

What was your question?
See above
 
I am Free Man....I reject the argument that only the "experts" get to speak. Just look at how profoundly they have lied to us and betrayed us.
So what is your source "free coward"?

See, your ignorant generalization is no different than those painting all cops as....

It is not about being an expert. It is actually taking the time to experience a public school before spewing a generalized lie.

It is about not being lazy.

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So what is your source "free coward"?

See, your ignorant generalization is no different than those painting all cops as....

It is not about being an expert. It is actually taking the time to experience a public school before spewing a generalized lie.

It is about not being lazy.

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My experience is being a citizen of this society, paying attention, being curious, and having bothered to get hyper educated.

I gave up lying years ago.

I highly recommend it.
 
We as a nation need to stop telling kids that going to college is the be-all, end-all of getting a good job. There are a multitude of jobs that don't require a four-year degree that pay as well or better than ones that do take a degree. Kids in high school aren't getting a true picture of what's out there for work after graduation.

Take my new neighbor, Matt. He bought the house next to my current one about six months ago. The guy's an electrician. He has two high-end pickups, a pontoon boat, a couple of jet skis, a used Corvette, and a Harley. He isn't up to his eyeballs in debt due to student loans. I'd say he's doing okay on the economic side working a job that at most requires a couple of years of community college.

When I was doing my undergraduate degrees on the GI Bill-- and graduated debt free-- being a bit older than average because of my military service I hung out with more grad students, several in law school. I made more than they did on graduation from the industrial electrician job I already had while going to school. The said half their graduating law school class couldn't even find work as a lawyer because the market was saturated.

We need to tell our kids the truth about work and jobs, not feed them bullshit about how a degree, any degree, will suddenly make them rich because it won't. As far as student loans go, you took it out, pay it back. We should also make those loans on the basis of credit worthiness and ability to pay it back. That means if you are taking a worthless degree in some bullshit field, you don't get a loan. Take a degree that leads to gainful employment.
 
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