Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
Higher education has been around for centuries and it takes a lot of human and cost-intensive resources in order to educate one individual. It has even been said that some PhD students can cost up to a million dollars to educate. Some people say that paying education tuition is justified, especially if graduates enter lucrative careers. However, the prompt says that it is the government’s responsibility to make sure that everyone can get a college education and if students can’t afford it, then the government must pay for their tuition. I agree with this prompt for one reason and disagree with it for two reasons.
First, this proposal is actually a waste of resources. To prove this point, it is actually a fact that the majority of high school seniors do not finish school in two or four years. University tuition costs tens of thousands of dollars and even those in the middle class among those drop outs would not be able to afford such expensive tuition. This means that the governments will be spending billions a year funding students’ time at university as if it were an adult daycare center where the students will end up getting the same low-skill job anyway which requires only a high school diploma. Granted, there are some jobs students can get if they fall under the “some college” category, but since most drop out of their first and second years where the skills students learn are only basic, their job prospects rarely get better.
In addition, there is potentially an exploit that universities may take advantage of. To illustrate, a private school with very high tuition can accept the vast majority of applications that it receives despite uncompetitive or no provided SAT/ACT scores and low GPAs in order to get the tuition payments from the government. With these ulterior motives in mind, these kinds of univeristies will not provide a quality education. Even if the students graduate with low prospects of graduating, the university has managed to defraud the government of thousands and the students by making them give up time for their supposed education. Albeit some students may graduate, even fewer students will find employment due to the university’s low reputation and education quality. All in all, this means that the government should not be using taxpayer money that will end up in the coffers of white-collar criminals.
On the other hand, it may be well worth helping students out of poverty and eliminating social reproduction. For instance, students in impoverished areas such as Strawberry Mansion high school in Philadelphia breed generations of those who are also in poverty (an example of social reproduction in sociology). These students are typically so mired in poverty that they could not even afford a couple hundred dollar deposit fee, let alone the tuition, though they were admitted. If the government was to step in and assist the student in paying for their education, then not only will that student save themselves from poverty by getting a job, but subsequesnt generations of the student will be able to live better because of the government. Thus, social reproduction has been elimiantated.
In conclusion, there are a few reasons why the government should not be spending money on giving free college education for students. Although, it is not to say that it isn’t useful in bringing students out of poverty and reducing social reproduction.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 229, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...at it receives despite uncompetitive or no provided SAT/ACT scores and low GPAs in...
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Line 7, column 399, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a hundred'.
Suggestion: a hundred
...hat they could not even afford a couple hundred dollar deposit fee, let alone the tuiti...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, anyway, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, well, as to, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 31.0 12.9106741573 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2890.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 566.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10600706714 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87757670434 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91110324347 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498233215548 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 894.6 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.064374348 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.652173913 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6086956522 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.91304347826 5.21951772744 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202517851427 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061384731571 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412116775338 0.0758088955206 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123271094396 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0277476976888 0.0667264976115 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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