<p>If there are truly disreputable trade schools that are engaging in fraud or otherwise doing something illegal, the solution is to prosecute them and shut them down. Creating nationwide financial chaos and a new bloated federal bureaucracy filled with free give aways will not solve that problem, assuming it actually exists and is in fact related to federally guaranteed student loans and nonprofit lenders. Which I doubt.</p>
<p>Nobody is suggesting that these students just not go to school. Our community is bending over backwards to get people enrolled in community college and/or trade school. But there are still people who will jump on any excuse to avoid it. One mother demanded the city provide free bus fare. She said it costs $4 a day to ride the bus and she couldn’t afford to give that much to her son. Well, when I went to a private 4 year university on scholarship, my single mom couldn’t afford to give me anything, so I lived at home and rode a bicycle to school every day. A summer job at McDonalds would buy that kid a good bicycle and then some. For that matter, one 8 hour shift at McDo on Saturday would pay for a week’s bus fare and then some. The photographer who shot my S’s senior photos worked a full 40 hour week to pay for his photography degree while going to school full time. My FIL worked as a garbage man to pay for college. The fact that these kids are getting low cost loans that should be teaching them financial responsibility, and which work very well for the vast majority of students, including minorities in trade school, does not in any way indicate a broken system to me. It is a very generous system that works quite well. At least it did until Kennedy and Pelosi decided to destroy it.</p>