Justine Fernandez

September 26, 2014

Professor Young

Eng 1100

Community as issue first draft

            Would you want to define your education based on the amount of money that you make? Do you think its fair that students struggle to get an education because the price of college is unbearable? The problem that many students struggle with in todays society is money, and more importantly money for school. The price of tuition for colleges and universities across the state is too expensive to afford; therefore the price of an education shouldn’t be as high as it is.

            The price of an education shouldn’t be as high as it is because it forces students to chose a school based on the amount of money the school gives them rather than the school that fits their expectations and the school that they want to attend to.  For example a student with really good grades may apply to an ivy league school and then a private school but she really would like to attend the Ivy league because it has been her dream college, but due to the amount of tuition she was unable to attend her dream college and was forced to go to the private school.

            In addition,  the price of college may be a problematic situation for majority of the families in the country. The price of tuition may force many to chose between school and work. This puts young adults in a situation that they chose between school and starting their work life early.  For example a student that is the first born may have to choose between going to work to help support the family or go to school and spend money on  an education that the family may or may not have. In result the price of tuition shouldn’t be as high as it is now. 

My last and final reason would be that it makes it harder for individuals that want to further their education or go back to school for a certain job. To get a job in todays society you need to have a college career, and it makes it hard for those who in the older generation want to go back to school to get a higher degree or just get a degree by itself. The cost of tuition for them woul be so high that they wouldn’t be able to leave the work field and support without themselves. This gives the economy a downgrade in the workforce because it forces people to make a decision between being completely broke and going back for an education or staying at the job that they are currently in and deal with it. In result college tuition shouldn’t be as high as it is, for the benefit of young adults and adults.

In conclusion, the cost of tuition should be lowered, it should be lowered for the benefit of both the new generation and the older generation.  If the cost of tuition I lowered everyone would be benefited by the new change,  people would get an education without being up to their necks in debt and the economy would run smoothly because everyone would be able to do what the want education wise.  If the problem of the price of tuition isn’t lowered it can force individuals to drop out of school and ultimately not get an education at all. This would force the future of America to be less educated and less functional in society due to one little minor adjustment.  Tuition should be lowered for the sake of everyone.