I Will Die With Student Loan Debt

[SheilaT]

100. Tuition free, or very low tuition is something I support.

But a lot of the student debt problem isn't with the kids who go into social work or teaching, but there's an awful lot of kids who major in things like, say, 17th century French poetry, or any one of the many majors out there that are intellectual interesting, but there are no jobs in that field. And not only do the kids not have a clue, but their parents don't either, and the professors and the school itself doesn't tell them, which is downright criminal, if you ask me. But those career centers do exist, and maybe there ought to be a requirement that the students visit them at least once every semester they are enrolled, and then more of them would choose a more practical major.

But in the end it comes back to the students and the parents, although if the schools gave them the sort of actual career and financial advice they deserve, then a lot of this would go away, even with the current cost of college.