WP2 part 2 comments and reflections Draft
Brandon Smith
English 15
4-9-19
Comment 1
Currently as someone who is a college student at Penn State I have to agree with you that free college tuition would be something that would be hard to achieve. The money that goes into tuition is not only tuition, but it also books and room and board in involved in getting a college education.
I also wanted to learn more about how everyone would be affected if college tuition was ever free. Questions that I asked my self were “Where will this money for free college come from?” “How will students be affected if college is free?” While reading other articles one jumped out at me titled “Responsibility or liability? Student load debt and time used in college” by Natasha Yurk Quadlin and Daniel Rudele. The author of this article conducted extra research and interviews on how students spend their time in college. This article brought up one great point and that is that students that have debt causes them to work harder. They have “skin in the game” which is basically saying that if college was free more people would go and not take it as seriously as other student who want to succeed. They devote more time to studying and school work as opposed to people who did not have debt who focused more time on partying and other activities.
In my opinion there are always other ways for people to get their education for example tech schools and community colleges.
You will get me to support ‘free college’ when you can explain to me why, after putting myself through college (by working at Burger King during the school year, summer jobs, sacrifice, and years of paying back loans), and then putting 4 children through college, I should continue to pay for other’s college education through my taxes. (Matt Williams)
Hey Matt,
I hear what you are saying. As someone who is in college and working 30+ hours a week to pay for my education I agree that it would be hard to support free education for all. The problem with high schoolers and college students today is that most of them are too lazy to work. They want to sit all day on their phones on social media or sit in their rooms watching T.V. Having debt for college is something that is supposed to push a student to want to work hard and take their education seriously. They have “skin in the game” and realize that it needs to be paid off as fast as they can.
Reflection
While completing this assignment it really helped to take apart the articles that we were studying by using the presentation. It helped to get the more important points and the parts of the article that are not that important. After picking the op-ed I went to find a scholarly article that helped to defend what that article was trying to say. The article used surveys and previously found information to help prove their point.
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