Peer Blog Critique 2: "Education Is Important, But Can We All Afford It?"

             I totally agree with Veronica Lira's article and find myself in a similar situation where I've had to work full time to pay for college and even skip out on a couple semesters because the funds were not quite there. The steady increase in tuition is definitely not helping, and things won’t get any better unless some change is made. I want believe that a Master’s degree is not going to be the requirement to make a decent living in the United States, but I do see where you’re coming from in that more and more occupations are requiring higher levels of education to for work. I feel that even a Bachelor’s degree will not fail to propel people into the middle class, however, and after obtaining one, continuing education may not be as much of a struggle.

There are scholarships and government aid programs to help students, but I’m not confident that this is enough. In fact, I think there are likely cases in which some students receive a little too much aid that goes toward things that are not school related. One of our peers actually wrote an article recently that suggests an alternative that may help make education more affordable for everyone, “Free Education inAmerica,” check it out, it may interest you!