Free Tuition reduces crime and truancy [View all]

[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.