Poll: Where do you stand on free tuition to state colleges and universities

[MADem]

118. Really? That's not my experience, and I've got relatives who do some of those jobs.

A nurse (who is degreed) is not a medical assistant who takes BP and files and types. The ones at my doc earned as they learned. Same with my dental hygenist--I asked. I have a relative who is a 911 dispatcher--'earn as you learn.'

I got student loans, and scholarships, and I paid them back. It took me quite a while, but it wasn't an unbearable amount--it was quite reasonable (cheap, in fact, in today's money).

It didn't kill me--but see, the price was AFFORDABLE. Not onerous. Uncle Sam paid for my graduate education and I incurred a service obligation as a consequence. They got their money's worth.

I am not interested in seeing the federal government in a position to withhold money if schools don't kowtow to them and teach nationalistic propaganda. And that could happen--as I said, look what Bush did to PBS.

Better to give companies tax breaks and incentives to help to subsidize the education of their employees and teach them needed skills, I think. I don't want the federal government becoming the national provost of education. It will homogenize the process, and not in a good way. And it will fuck over HBCUs.

I won't be convinced otherwise. I don't like the government holding a sword over the head of academia. They're not a good fit together, unless you're teaching war or national security.