2016 Postmortem

As long as it does not require parents to fill out complicated and long and intrusive financial forms, I'd like to hear about it.

It's been a long time, but I will never forget the difficulty and shame of filling out the financial aid forms.

Poor people do not need to be reminded of the fact they are poor. That is especially grue of teachers and others who pursue professions or have jobs that are hard work and worthwhile to society but don't pay enough to be able to pay for the college tuition of your kids.

I should hope that the idea of free tuition would start with public colleges and universities and eventually cover tuition to all schools of higher learning and all students who qualify.

After all, we pay the tuition now. It's just that we do it in a way that saddles young (and old) graduates with the burden of repaying huge debts at a time in their lives when they may or may not earn enough to repay them without sacrificing and worst making their young children sacrifice.

Better to pay the cost of educating serious students from the money that people who can afford to gamble on the stock market have. It wouldn't be a large part of that gambling stake, only a small bit of each gamble. And think of the good it would do if it made the difference between a teacher being able to buy a house for his/her children or living in a rented place for many years.

Anyway, I would love to hear your suggestion.