LogFAQs > #959137590

No, college is straight up a scam in the united states. Other places are different, but here it's a straight up money grab, and total scam. The cost to actually teach? Negligible. If you provided school grounds for free (no taxes...like churches), and just paid the administration and professors based on tuition, each student would pay a very small fraction of what they currently do per credit. Students would graduate with a BA with less then 10k in total cost, possibly less then 5k.

Instead, look at how much money is made from the education system each year in the US. Billions of dollars. It is a straight up scam. Worse is the student loan system (that income isn't including the interest made off loans). It's bad enough in this country that someone can go to college for 4 years get a BA degree and end up 60k in debt. What is worse is that often they don't get paid much for the first 5 years or so after that (In CA first 5 years as a teacher was 30k with no raises, per year, not even enough to rent a place yourself in the bay area where I lived). Because of the way student loans work, if you don't pay them off right from the start, you end up getting a ton of compounded interest, making a 60k debt in 2015 become a 120k debt in 2020. That should be illegal.

The entire system is a scam.

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