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Originally Posted by Shiva_TD
Someone getting their ass off the couch and attending classes could be considered a barrier.
I worked in high school and I worked when I went to college and did not find it to be a barrier in either case. Neither the government or even my family, which could have afforded it, donated a single dime to my college education and I never even considered it. It simply wasn't needed nor did work interfere with my college education.
Okay, had I not been working I could have done a lot more partying while in college but I managed to get in enough partying anyway so that was not an issue. And no, I didn't get to go to Florida on Spring Break either because I was working instead but I don't consider funding someone so that the can go to Florida for a party as being necessary for a college education.
As I noted before, I believe that someone who works their way through college gets a better education than, for example, a rich kid that uses their free time for binge drinking and doing drugs.
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Your drive to go to college is exceptional and if everyone had that drive than more people would be able to afford college. The problem with that logic is that I am sure that many people who's familys could afford college without the student working at all aren't as qualified as youself because the student wouldn't have went to college if they had to work as hard as you did. This also means that many people who were slightly less motivated as you didn't go to college and richer familys could send their even less motivated students to the same school.
I am pretty sure that most people could get into a great school if they just worked incredible hard but people who aren't as motivated could still get into that school if they were richer and therefore didn't need to work as hard. That is why if college was free, if anything, it would make the school more competative because anyone with the correct traits could go there.