Argumentative Essay: Should College Education Be Free?

Should college education be free?

College education should be free because it keep students from having to owe debt,allow students to focus on their studies more, and help families that can’t afford college. College education should be free students shouldn’t have to pay for college nor should they parents have to pay for it. The government should be able to remunerate, for the tuition of the students because free college education could beneficial to students in many ways which includes not having them to work multiple jobs just to cover their tuition. Firstly,College should be free because it eliminates student debt take into account that in 2015, alone the total amount of student loans taken out was $1.3 trillion dollars.That is a outrageous

number that is a sign that the government should remunerate, the tuition for the students another statistic that proves college should be free is that in 2012, more than 10 million students took out student loans.With that amount of debt it would be a cause of concern, it would cause more students to not want to attend college or even consider dropping out of college.Despite of all the evidence and statistics some critics argue that college shouldn’t be free simply, due to overcrowding. With more people going to college their may need to be a wait list to limit the capacity of students being accepted. However, you could still argue that colleges wouldn’t be overcrowded because colleges could do a lottery which would only accept a handful students. Also during the lottery the students would have to meet the grade requirements to get accepted so that could limit overcrowding.A student once said, “I always have more students taking the class than the seat.” So, a grading requirement can limit more overcrowding than it already is at colleges. Next, the government should remunerate students tuition so students could focus more on their studies.Free tuition would give students more time to focus on their studies. Some college students can’t focus because they're so worried about the debt they owe, and how are they going to pay that debt back when they graduate. Some students even have to work multiple jobs just to keep up with the tuition they have to pay to make sure they stay in college.

That could be irksome, because students can’t properly focus due to the stress of how they're going to pay their tuition.Some critics argue that free college could lead to people taking advantage of college due to the fact that it’s just free and some people who are not college material, or not ready would falter in college. Some even suggest “college isn’t for everybody” meaning that free college could be a disaster for students that isn’t college ready. An opposing viewpoint is that college should still be free the opposition claims that if students doesn’t keep their grades up academic probation could be enforced.Meaning that if students doesn’t meet the grades or GPA criteria they could be extruded from the college or university. The academic probation would indicate whether the students is college material or not the students who meet the GPA and grade criteria would continue on at the college or university.The students that doesn’t meet the grading criteria or GPA will be kicked out. That would counter the claim that students would take advantage of college.Finally, College tuition should be free because it would alleviate the families that can’t afford college. One parent said “American colleges have now gotten to a point where they are

prohibitively for us middle class people”. That quote shows that tuition needs to be free because parents are turning to parent plus loans which are used to help pay for students school tuition also 83% of america can’t afford college.Which is devastating, because the parents would probably struggle to pay the loans back they took out for their children to go to college. Another example, can be read on Cnn website, a student that’s going to college has to pay $27,000 in tuition over 4 years. That could be tough for that student due to the fact that the student probably doesn’t have the particular income to pay it off in time without interest being a factor. Nonetheless, people argue that free college would bring college degrees values down due to the fact that more people frequently, getting into the same fields. Such as dentistry, physician,etc critics also think that more people getting into the same field could lower the salary for that particular field. Which is not necessarily, true people with more degrees would open up more jobs because some jobs would require college education rather than just having a GED or a high school education. The quote, “Education is key” provides support that degrees wouldn’t bring value down because you have to take into account that 26.7% of people don’t go to college. So that statistic would show that a degree would depreciate, because that’s less people going to college. In conclusion, government should remunerate the tuition because it would eliminate debt, allow students to focus on their studies,and help families that can’t afford college.Allowing free college would take the pressure of the people and families that can’t afford college 83% of america can’t afford college which is an indication that it needs to be free. It also would reduce the $1.3 trillion dollars owed by students and it would also stop students from having to work multiple jobs just to pay their tuition.