The Pros And Cons Of Obama's Free Community College

From being a senior in high school, I have come to expand on my knowledge about college tuition and how community college works. I have learned that college tuition is not all that easy to pay, no matter what your family income is. Since there has been a grand controversy on whether community college should be fee for its first two years, many people have determined the pros and cons to the argument. Personally I believe that community college should be free for its first two years for two different reason. The first being that many family can not afford for there child to go to college and the second being that it give students the opportunity to get a short experience of how college will be. Then if they would like to continue their studies

Since Obama was president during this time, he had advocated for this issue. Obama had also hopes to be able to “encourage the neediest students to enroll to at [least] the lowest-funded colleges” (Jacobs).This opportunity should be given out to all students who have worked hard and complete there year in school and want to continue to expand their learning and gain a degree(s). Free community college will give a diverse amount of students the opportunity to at least attempt college without having to worry about the expenses one must pay

Although it is pointed out to the president that “community college tuition is already is free for low-income students” there is still an issue for those families make a good income amount and still don’t have the sufficient amount of money to pay for college tuition. Multiple low-income students have qualified for for grants such as the Pell grant and have benefitted from it because they end up being able to use about “$5,730 to cover books and living expenses” beyond having free tuition (Jacobs). Although many people say that starting off at a community college puts you at a lower advantage, that it not the case. Deborah Santiago, who is works with the nonprofit organization Excelencia in Education, advocates for students who are typically first generation. Within the article Ms. Santiago states that the “free tuition message could have ‘a powerful impact’ on first generation students, they need more support to compete college”. That had provided an example on how the impact of free tuition also give support to students to more on to college and earn a