As a child, we are told that we must have good grades and try our best in school, but why do we need good grades? Why do we have to go to college? What is the reason for this? There is a nationwide debate whether college is worth the cost, not just money but the mental and physical cost as well. It is evident that college is not worth the cost because of the strain on mental health, other jobs are present that do not require college, and students are left in even more debt. A human's Mental Health is one of the most important things in life. In order to not only be successful but to live a life, one must have good mental health that allows them to be happy and do what pleases them. When children are overwhelmed with school work they tend to become stressed and have bad mental health. This leads to a bad cycle where a student becomes depressed from the extra …show more content…
However, student loans are not offered to every student and if a student was to receive a loan they still have to pay it back fully or with interest. for instance, “1-3 trillion dollars of student loans, and 6 million vacant jobs that no one is trained to do” (rowe, E). Not only is there over a trillion dollars worth of debt that needs to be paid off, there are also millions of jobs that are not filled because of a large skill gap. it was also stated that, “students today are taking on More debt, and recently Tiding bankruptcy laws make it more difficult to shake that debt” (Wicker, F). All summer saying colleges or cheaper, they are wrong because the initial cost may be cheaper but the amount of debt that is left over is very large and paying off his debt because for a teenager who is learning and looking for a job while making no