Making tuition expenses higher and cutting off grants and scholarships is completely unfair. There are more people now than ever before who are returning to school because of budget cuts and layoffs. People always want a better future. When all possibilities of accomplishing that, it can be not only frustrating but very exasperating. Many people don’t want to finish school because of the amount of debt they may end up putting themselves in.
My family emigrated from El Salvador and had to work very hard to establish themselves here. I am a first generation college student and my family is too poor to deal with any college expenses. With the tuition increasing yearly, it is a miracle that I am still here. I am here because of grants and scholarships, but without those, all the money I would have had to pay would have had to repay in the end probably would have discouraged me from continuing my education.
Tuition hikes are harmful to everybody. It makes it impossible for people who want to educate themselves and who dream of having a better future to accomplish their goals when they cannot afford to go to school and cannot repay the loans in school.
It is difficult to imagine how people with just a high school diploma can manage to get jobs and support their family when getting and maintain jobs gets harder every year. The economy is not the same as it was 50 years ago. Education is important and pretty much the only way people are going to succeed their dreams of a better future. Passing highschool is not enough anymore. There needs to be a way that tuition can be lowered and more money given out to students so that they are not already overwhelmed by the debt they accumulated for going to college in hopes of acquiring a better future.
