Student Loan Forgiveness

ml1 said:

indeed.  

My nitpicking the number you cited doesn't really change the answer to your question.  I just figured turnabout is fair play.  
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No complaints.


jimmurphy said:

Do all of you who support this forgiveness see it as a one-shot?  Or an ongoing program?

I see it as a one-shot but it should come in conjunction with some other program to allow people to pursue a post-high school education without incurring massive debt. 

Mash the reset button now, sure. But find a way to help pay for college up front. 

I wish I believed all high school educations were equal in this country. And I wish that our current public education actually did something to level the playing field. But it doesn’t. Schools in richer areas always have advantages that less affluent communities can’t offer. 


Incidentally there are publicly-funded vocational technical high schools here in NJ.  Essex County has one, with an overall enrollment of about 2,300 students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_County_Schools_of_Technology

I sincerely wonder how actively students in suburban districts like ours are recruited for Vo-Tech school..

We had a friend who for years worked as an administrator at the Somerset County Vo-Tech High School.  Every year they made trips to all the school districts to talk about the available programs.  He said when they went to places like Watchung, Basking Ridge and Bedminster they were not well-received.  The students in those schools were expected to go to college, and learning to cut hair or fix cars was considered undesirable.  


I recall finding a tuition bill for my uncle from when he attended college in the 1960s, and one semester of tuition was cheaper than his plane ticket to get to school that same semester.

Way back when, students could get a decent summer job and it would cover tuition at a state school for the semester or the year.  Secondary education should not be only for the wealthy or financially comfortable. 


mrincredible said:

Incidentally there are publicly-funded vocational technical high schools here in NJ.  Essex County has one, with an overall enrollment of about 2,300 students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_County_Schools_of_Technology

I sincerely wonder how actively students in suburban districts like ours are recruited for Vo-Tech school..

We had a friend who for years worked as an administrator at the Somerset County Vo-Tech High School.  Every year they made trips to all the school districts to talk about the available programs.  He said when they went to places like Watchung, Basking Ridge and Bedminster they were not well-received.  The students in those schools were expected to go to college, and learning to cut hair or fix cars was considered undesirable.  

kids from Columbia go to vo-tech in scotch plains. Union county. 


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