You’re not forced to go away for college and incur room, board and other living expenses. That’s been the real change in student debt - kids don’t borrow just for tuition and books, they borrow $50,000 a year, spend half that on school and the other half on rent, food, drinking and car payments. Then they graduate with a degree in pube braiding and are upset they don’t make $100,000 a year straight out of college.
my daughter is finishing her second degree. She has lived at home and taken most of her courses at OU regional branches. Tuition at OU Southern in Ironton is about $2,800 a semester and used books bought on Amazon are a couple hundred bucks a semester. That is less than $30,000 for a 4 year degree. Kids that end up with $250,000 in debt are idiots if that degree isn’t medical or law or something along those lines.
what these kids want is for us to pay for the educational experience they wanted, not the one they needed. That’s a major difference.
I remember seeing this girl on TV crying about her debt. She went to Tulane for 6 years getting her undergrad and masters in social work. $300,000 in debt for a job that pays $40,000 at best. Why pay for horrible decisions.