US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High

Re:US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High by austenallred on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:10PM (#14363923)

The government isn't running the schools (most of the time), it's just underwriting an infinite amount of loans for students to take and go to private companies with. So if you're a University you know a) students think they should pay however much it costs to attend and b) they have an unlimited amount of funding to do so with.

Thus ITT Tech.

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Re:US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High by muninn_ on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:24PM (#14363990)

Sure but we're talking about rights, not operations.

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Re:US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High by austenallred on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:37PM (#14364036)

I'm not trying to comment on whether or not education should be a right, I'm just saying that believing it should be given our current system has had some negative repercussions.

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Re:US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High by muninn_ on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:44PM (#14364059)

Which is fine, but my comment was addressing the right to education.

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Re:US Household Debt Surpasses 2008 High by salesguy222 on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:08PM (#14364154)

I would say there is a major difference between local property owners paying reasonable sums for children to become literate (k-12)...

and a nation paying highly unreasonable and ballooning sums of money so that a functional literate adult can obtain an education that rarely leads to 10x better outcomes

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