Legend’s View: education costs soar
So education is supposedly a basic human right, something that all people deserve.
Regardless of social status, everyone deserves a fair chance to obtain an education and that something our governments and institutions of higher learning are constantly making harder to afford.
Most of the legislators at both the federal and state levels are upper class citizens who have no idea what basic human needs like food, shelter and education cost the average citizen, and we don’t just mean dollar amounts.
Parents toil away their children’s childhoods working in this system of wage slavery to collect extra money for Junior’s college fund.
Children become solely dedicated to athletics, academics or some other activity in hopes of securing a “full-ride” scholarship to lessen the burden on mom and dad.
The upper-class citizens that have been running the show for years have and have completely lost touch with the realities of being a member of what used to be the middle class, and we see it when they raise the cost of college, and slash health-care benefits.
Our politicians and those running colleges and universities have health care, car insurance, job security and can still afford to send their kids to college because their jobs subsidize the cost of a lot of those very things.
But regular folk are stuck paying out of pocket for all of those things in this “right-to-work” state while the legislators cut benefits and support the “haves.”
