• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If that’s the case, why is college so much cheaper in other countries? Why is it just the U.S. where education cost has skyrocketed?

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      Because Reagan opened the flood gates on raising the cost of higher education. Then the boomer generation, well known for pulling the ladder up behind themselves, saw this and ran with it. Also they aren’t the ones going to school anymore. Combine that with the general hatred for education and science republicans have and we have super expensive schools.

      My last two years of college had over 10% tuition increases to pay for a new stadium…

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      No one is suggesting the colleges lose the money. They already got it. So what does their gouging have to do with it? Even if they had to pay off the loans, it would hurt them. Maybe they deserve to be hurt, but giving back money you thought was yours still hurts anyway.

      What a bunch of bizarre responses.

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        5 months ago

        What does their gouging have to do with it?

        Everything. The point you seem to be missing is that college doesn’t actually cost as much as U.S. institutions are charging. They’re robbing people blind, and that needs to stop.