Free Education

[Randy]

Drug use and sexually transmitted diseases among American teenagers persist at alarming rates. And U.S. teens aren't the scholars some of their international peers are.

"We have to end adolescence as a social experiment," Newt Gingrich writes in BusinessWeek. "We tried it. It failed. It's time to move on ... Children rapidly assuming the roles and responsibilities of adults would yield enormous benefit to society."

Students who finish high school a year or two early, the former House Speaker says, should qualify for a year or two of free college tuition.

What do you think? Fair?

 

[Evil Eye]

Fair? No.
But it's a good idea, motivating the (probably) smarter parts of your population to study instead of wasting time.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

It would be interesting to see how this would work, especially considering the cost of most colleges. I don't see it being used as a strategy to combat STDs and drug use, however.

 

[Sinon]

If you're dumb enough to take drugs in school, or get pregnant at 14, I doubt a college education is what you need.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Also there are disadvantaged communities that don’t have the resources or an environment conducive to combating these obstacles. They would stand to benefit most from the opportunity, but I don’t think they could afford the brain drain.