Free Tuition reduces crime and truancy

[LynnTTT]

Little attention has been paid to another benefit that would certainly follow: a decrease in teenage truancy and crime.
It's just common sense. Kids whose parents can afford to send them to college talk about it, prepare for it and those kids stay in school and tend to stay out of trouble. Because those kids see a future.
But poor children? They know that there is no college in their future. Why bother to go to classes at all. Why not stay out on the street all night.
If free public school tuition was available, I see charities stepping up to provide a small scholarship for local kids to buy books and transportation to get them to school.

[daleanime]

1. The idea is a win any way you look at it.....

the only people against it are those who don't want to see others, or at least one in particular, win.

[FBaggins]

2. One error in your assumptions

Countries that offer free college tuition don't necessarily provide it to all students coming out of high-school. College becomes more merit-based.

[LynnTTT]

3. That's true and I don't advocate college for every single child

but I think there are many poor kids who are certainly smart enough to go to college but simply drop out because there is no point to taking a college prep course when there is no way to go to college. This would change.

[restorefreedom]

4. not lower crime!

what will happen to hillarys friends who run profit prisons?

will someone please think of the greedy corporatists?