Cutting Pell Grants and subsidized loans would lead to student riots?

[Medwell]

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@kelsmom

So your parents do not give you any money whatsoever, nor have they ever given you any money that you were able to put toward school? They do not provide any health care coverage for you? They never help you with any costs whatsoever, including car, insurance, cell phone plan/bill, gifts, etc?

Is it really that hard to believe? My family isn’t American; I come from a culture where the idea of parents paying for school and living expenses for their adult children is considered somewhat absurd. I suppose I must be somewhat of an outlier in the U.S., seeing as how the entire college financial aid system is designed based on the notion that kids leech off their parents well past the age of 18, which is simply inaccurate (at least in my case). </p>

<p>The thought of my parents buying me a car is particularly amusing: I have never owned a car, I simply can’t afford it… I need that money to pay for school, rent, and food.</p>

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@cartera45

The stories about kids with full “need” rides driving fancy cars and living the high life are amusing anecdotes but unless I see the financials myself, I don’t trust that anyone knows all those details about other peoples’ financial situations.

All the kids I talked about are brothers in my fraternity, so I know them quite well. Furthermore, I am in charge of academics in the organization, so I am very familiar with their academic/scholarship situations. </p>

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@cartera45

Medwell, you need to appreciate what you have and stop worrying about what others have. Nothing good ever comes of it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad I’m going to college (although I wish I could get a Pell grant to buy a car and live in a nicer place). I’m just pointing out some massive flaws in an incredibly unjust system. </p>

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@10Upper

Is cutting pell grants a good idea? No, it would hurt too many kids chances at an education.

No it wouldn’t! Why doesn’t anyone get it? If you take away Pell Grants, the only difference would be that the kids receiving them would have to take out loans and pay them back… just like all the middle-class kids that go to college. It’s not like kids that come from poor families are poor forever… once they graduate from college, they have equal earning power to everyone else graduating from college. Hence, they have equal ability to pay back their loans.</p>

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@TurtlePhobic

If a college education is actually worth the price, why would you have to charge different graduates different prices? All students graduate with the same degree from the same institution, and are adults. They should all pay the same amount, no subsidized loans, no grants. period. Having middle class kids subsidize their classmates is insane.

THANK YOU! Look, I’m so sorry that my parents did all right in life… but what does that have to do with me? and why does that mean I should have to suffer?</p>