This chapter is about how students are working more than ever. Whether is be full time or part time students or full time or part time jobs, college students are working more for many reasons. These reasons are due to a higher tuition rate, less grants, reducing loans and just having extra money to live off of. The article also stresses that maybe college kids are working too much and it's taking away from many of them excelling in college. I think Kramer is right to blame high tuition, lower grants and large loans to students working. I was excepted into nine colleges and SUNY Plattsburgh was the only affordable one for me. Even with lot of financial aid, schools like Nazareth were close to $40,000 and even with a $54,000 scholarship to Adelphi I would still have to pay $12,000 a year. To me that was insane and had I chose one of those universities, I would have had to work. Thankfully I only needed small loans for college, but I have friends here that do have jobs. They seem to not have a lot of free time between work and studying and I'm sure like Kramer states "student with substantial work obligations may not be able to "fit in": study groups". It horrible that students pay money to go to college, but can't reach their true potential due to the ridiculous prices at universities across the country.
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ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree with you. I also talked about how Kramer blames higher tuition, lower grants, and large loans. I also agree with you when you said it's horrible that students pay money to go to college, but can't reach their true potential due to the ridiculous prices at universities across the country. And I think that having a job whether it's part time or full time it takes away the whole purpose of college. Many students usually don't have enough time to socialize, join extracurricular activities, and even just experience the college life.
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