Free college means tougher admissions. Wealthy people with dumb kids dont want that.

[elehhhhna]

Not means testing but grades testing. The Bush family would be screwed.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Actually, grades testing would benefit those at the higher end of the income spectrum.

Actually, grades testing would benefit those at the higher end of the income spectrum. As the income of one's parents goes up his or her educational opportunities go up, primarily because K-12 is funded through property taxes.

The more affluent the neighborhood the better the school.

[GoneFishin]

2. Absolutely. Some people who can't go to college now would be able to. There would be more

competition.

[yeoman6987]

6. The requirements would be tougher for sure

Maintain B average....maybe C average
No skipping class
No picking major....chose between 10 the government ok's
Have a comprehensive academic plan and stick to it.


Will be interesting.

[elehhhhna]

7. Lol imaginative eh

[yeoman6987]

9. That's how the GI bill works and I guaranree they'd at least take some of that

Don't tell me it's going to be a free for all. There will be requirements guaranteed. No imagination but reality.

[greymattermom]

3. Maybe the first semester should be free

but after that, enrollment in additional courses should depend on passing the first semester. If you pass one course, you can enroll in one course, something like that.

[Kalidurga]

4. I think it means more colleges will be built and fewer prisons.

[Live and Learn]

10. +10,000 Opportunities for everyone to be educated and able to learn throughout life. nt

[KingCharlemagne]

5. Wealthy people send their offspring to private schools. The 'free' won't even

begin to touch them, although it might force the ivies to compete more vigorously for talented but non-wealthy undergrads who would presumably have many more choices available to them in a milieu of free tuition at public schools.

[Recursion]

8. Many of the ivies are already free for about 90% of households

Harvard started that about a decade ago and a lot of the rest followed suit. The problem now isn't the high-endowment ivies (who used tuition mainly as a way to keep parents somewhat engaged) but the mid-endowment second tiers.

[KingCharlemagne]

11. I didn't know this. 30 years ago, a solidly middle-class guy with whom I worked

had to drop out of Harvard Undergrad because he couldn't afford to finish up. (I think he eventually returned to finish his degree but can't say for sure, as I lost touch with him over the years.) So maybe this has only been within the past 10 years or so.

[Recursion]

12. Yeah, the mid-oughts or so

But, I mean, when you're sitting on that much money you can do that pretty easily.