Why Do We Need Free Community Colleges?
College education being free, has been a topic that many debates, or come across often. Several countries do provide free college education, but this system won’t work in the United States especially in the highly populated regions. Therefore, making Community Colleges free, our taxes will rise, we will have overcrowded classrooms, and underpaid professors, all leading to poor quality of education. As stated by Mary Clare Amselem in her article ‘Free Community College is a bad deal for taxpayers and students’ , community colleges generally have a poor academic rate. Consequently, the education level for job employment will also increase. Demanding that students will be required to obtain a bachelors to qualify for a position in their studied field.
Making community colleges ‘free’, doesn’t really mean it is entirely free. There’s many areas that still need to be paid. For instance, teachers/professors, classroom materials, different in school services (counselling; the writing center), …show more content…
would all be affected by this change of having free community college’s. Moreover, taxpayers pay federal, state and local school taxes to help pay for different types of financial aid programs. According to a College Board article (Financial Aid: FAQ), 2014-2015 two-thirds of students paid for their college education using financial aid dollars. Approximately, 57% used the federal dollars in grants, while 34% used them in forms of federal loans. This indicates that the majority of student that attend Community Colleges are already getting a ‘free education’. To pay the other cost that come with free community colleges, our federal and state taxes will raise.
In populated cities, such as New York City, public high schools, which are gratuitous; are overcrowded. In the United States, 40% of ungraduated students attend Community Colleges. Community Colleges presently face similar struggles as public high schools with over populated classrooms, but college isn’t free. Therefore, with having free Community Colleges, many problems will arise. Students currently have hardship trying to get into the courses that they will need to transfer into a four-year college or to complete their degree for graduation. Moreover, these issues push a student to graduate 1-2 years past their expected graduation time. If community colleges were to be free, then the expected graduation time for a community college student will increase. Making each degree program more competitive for a student to get into. If free Community college were to occur, an associate degree will be the comparative degree to a high school diploma’s. Student’s learn and comprehend more in a smaller class setting. It will be difficult for a professor to connect with an overcrowded classroom and truly know if what they’re teaching, the students understand.
Free community colleges will lead to more underpaid professors.
Essentially, many seem to forget that professor’s jobs don’t stop when they ‘clock out’. Most must go home to grade papers, and exams. From 2005 to 2015 there has been a decline in the number of students enrolling in college as an education major. Additionally, in an article by Mary Ellen Flannery titled Survey: Number of Future Teachers Reaches all time- low, urges to have teacher’s wages raised. Nevertheless, having free community college’s will lower professor’s wages. According to the survey in the article above, this decline of educators will affect the level of education a student will receive. The fewer professors the more integrated college classrooms will be. For instance, if I am a student that needs a professor who is hands on as oppose to a student who’s needs are to read more, this will cause classroom difficulties. It will be difficult for one professor to give his undivided attention to 30+
students.
In conclusion, community college shouldn’t be free. Making community colleges free, many of the situations that the community college face today will just increase and over flow. Instead of finding a way to make a bad situation worse, we should find a solution that will make a bad situation great. Try to find a median to this problem .
Making community colleges ‘free’, doesn’t really mean it is entirely free. There’s many areas that still need to be paid. For instance, teachers/professors, classroom materials, different in school services (counselling; the writing center), …show more content…
would all be affected by this change of having free community college’s. Moreover, taxpayers pay federal, state and local school taxes to help pay for different types of financial aid programs. According to a College Board article (Financial Aid: FAQ), 2014-2015 two-thirds of students paid for their college education using financial aid dollars. Approximately, 57% used the federal dollars in grants, while 34% used them in forms of federal loans. This indicates that the majority of student that attend Community Colleges are already getting a ‘free education’. To pay the other cost that come with free community colleges, our federal and state taxes will raise.
In populated cities, such as New York City, public high schools, which are gratuitous; are overcrowded. In the United States, 40% of ungraduated students attend Community Colleges. Community Colleges presently face similar struggles as public high schools with over populated classrooms, but college isn’t free. Therefore, with having free Community Colleges, many problems will arise. Students currently have hardship trying to get into the courses that they will need to transfer into a four-year college or to complete their degree for graduation. Moreover, these issues push a student to graduate 1-2 years past their expected graduation time. If community colleges were to be free, then the expected graduation time for a community college student will increase. Making each degree program more competitive for a student to get into. If free Community college were to occur, an associate degree will be the comparative degree to a high school diploma’s. Student’s learn and comprehend more in a smaller class setting. It will be difficult for a professor to connect with an overcrowded classroom and truly know if what they’re teaching, the students understand.
Free community colleges will lead to more underpaid professors.
Essentially, many seem to forget that professor’s jobs don’t stop when they ‘clock out’. Most must go home to grade papers, and exams. From 2005 to 2015 there has been a decline in the number of students enrolling in college as an education major. Additionally, in an article by Mary Ellen Flannery titled Survey: Number of Future Teachers Reaches all time- low, urges to have teacher’s wages raised. Nevertheless, having free community college’s will lower professor’s wages. According to the survey in the article above, this decline of educators will affect the level of education a student will receive. The fewer professors the more integrated college classrooms will be. For instance, if I am a student that needs a professor who is hands on as oppose to a student who’s needs are to read more, this will cause classroom difficulties. It will be difficult for one professor to give his undivided attention to 30+
students.
In conclusion, community college shouldn’t be free. Making community colleges free, many of the situations that the community college face today will just increase and over flow. Instead of finding a way to make a bad situation worse, we should find a solution that will make a bad situation great. Try to find a median to this problem .