Right now, there’s a big debate whether or not community college should be free. Some say it should under certain requirements, some say it shouldn't no matter what. It's believed that if college is free, it can help give people a boost on striving for a degree. It's hoped that more people enroll to college to increase the amount of people with degrees. I think the whole situation is pretty interesting, therefore I believe that community college shouldn’t be free because there's already a way in which someone doesn't have to pay for tuition, the pell grants basically covers your tuition and more, and there’s going to be a lot of competition because students varying from low income to upper & middle class.
Making college free sounds like a good idea, who wouldn't want to go to college and pay nothing? The idea can benefit a lot of people, but there's no need for it to be free because according to Felipe Bezerra, a student at Rio Hondo College, “about half of the state's community college students qualify for those waivers.” It wouldn't really make a difference to many students because a lot of them are going to have their tuition covered by fee waivers. They're going to realize that they went through some hassle to not pay for tuition, when at the end, it ended up being …show more content…
According to College Board, “nationwide, tuition at community colleges averages $3,347 per year.” When you get a pell grant, you get about $5,730, stated by the article, meaning that you'll have more than enough money to cover tuition. Even when fafsa gives you a loan, you get about the same amount as the pell grant. A student of any income can easily pay for tuition whether they have a loan, grant or scholarship. Making college free won't really matter because people already have ways to pay it off. It'll be good if a student received absolutely no help of course, but these days, the majority of students receive some type of