Why College Textbooks Should Be Cheaper

According to Ethan Senack, a higher education associate at U.S. PIRG, "The textbooks market is broken and students are paying the price”, the repercussions of a broken market fall at the feet of those who are already financially crippled. "Students are paying too much for textbooks, plain and simple."( usnews.com) Chattahoochee Technical College should pay for every students textbook’s because not everyone receive financial aid, students are dropping out from college, tuition is already expensive.

Education plays a huge role in everyone’s life, and college is not cheap. Not everybody is eligible to receive aid from the government, such as Pell Grant, HOPE Grant, or Zell Miller. Some people have the financial ability to pay for college and
US News says, “The soaring cost of college textbooks is affecting students throughout the nation, to the point where some forgo purchasing books, despite the fact their grades could be in jeopardy”, and some students leave college altogether. Having to drop out of college, and potentially ruin your academic success, due to the cost of books, is incredibly unfortunate. The purpose of college is to teach every student the skills needed for them to start their career of choice. Why should the cost of a book hinder this universal goal? Not only are the cost of textbooks hurting student’s wallets, but also their grades and their academic choices. Nowadays professors do not teach directly out of the textbooks. Teachers mostly uses PowerPoints, handouts and notes to teach. College should pay for every student’s textbooks because most of the time students use the textbooks for only one semester unless she/he has to retake the class again. It is very rare that textbooks are used in class frequently. The scary aspect of the financial burden of college is that “today there are 29.1 million college dropouts versus 24.5 million Americans with less than a high school diploma. It’s safe to predict that this trend will only accelerate as older generations with lower educational attainment rates are gradually replaced by new
In other words someone else would have to pay for you one way or another game tickets, tax, school activities, and tuition. You can even pay for the books twice without realize that. Tuition would be more expensive. College will be unhappy to pay for every student’s textbooks, but there are options that will only require initial investment, like a library system or open online books, where students can rent books or put a deposit down and return the textbooks at the end of the semester, which some colleges already