Argument Essay: Should Community College Be Free

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Higher education is the most important part of our life. Also, it important for economic improvement. However, in today’s generation the tuition fee for higher education becoming expensive and expensive rapidly and living expenses, such as house rent, grocery are hard to afford for working class family. Therefore, question lays between whether the community college should be free or not. Many people believes that community college should be free and many don’t. In the article published in The Wall Street Journal, written by Joshua Wyner, a founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute’s College, argues that community college should be free. On the other hand, the article written by Andrew P. Kelly, a resident scholar and the director …show more content…
Compare to Kelly, Wyler has completely different ideas about why the community college should should be free. Kelly mentions that money is not the problem for achieving the academic success. On the other hand, Wyner states that even though community college is free, “Living expenses and books can easily cost there to five times the amount of tuition.” Therefore, Wyner says that if Community college is free than the low income students are able to use their Pell grants for living expenses. To support Wyner claim, he states “research shows that when students finance college-related expenses by working more than halftime, which more than a third of all community-college students do, the chances of graduating drop significantly.” Also, Kelly states that making Community College free to everyone will harm the low wage students because the rate of enrollment of middle and high class students will go high. On the other hand, Wyner argues that “Free tuition won’t send students from the middle class and higher flocking to community colleges, crowing out their more-disadvantaged peers. If they were that price-sensitive they would already be