Why Do We Need Free Community Colleges?

College education being free, has been a topic that many debates, or come across often. Several countries do provide free college education, but this system won’t work in the United States especially in the highly populated regions. Therefore, making Community Colleges free, our taxes will rise, we will have overcrowded classrooms, and underpaid professors, all leading to poor quality of education. As stated by Mary Clare Amselem in her article ‘Free Community College is a bad deal for taxpayers and students’ , community colleges generally have a poor academic rate. Consequently, the education level for job employment will also increase. Demanding that students will be required to obtain a bachelors to qualify for a position in their studied field.

Making community colleges ‘free’, doesn’t really mean it is entirely free. There’s many areas that still need to be paid. For instance, teachers/professors, classroom materials, different in school services (counselling; the writing center),
Essentially, many seem to forget that professor’s jobs don’t stop when they ‘clock out’. Most must go home to grade papers, and exams. From 2005 to 2015 there has been a decline in the number of students enrolling in college as an education major. Additionally, in an article by Mary Ellen Flannery titled Survey: Number of Future Teachers Reaches all time- low, urges to have teacher’s wages raised. Nevertheless, having free community college’s will lower professor’s wages. According to the survey in the article above, this decline of educators will affect the level of education a student will receive. The fewer professors the more integrated college classrooms will be. For instance, if I am a student that needs a professor who is hands on as oppose to a student who’s needs are to read more, this will cause classroom difficulties. It will be difficult for one professor to give his undivided attention to 30+