By: Chloe Rocha

There are many reasons as to why I think college should be free. Education is something that everyone deserves to have the opportunity to do. However, if you are someone that was born into poverty you automatically have less of a chance to have the same opportunities as someone who was born into money.

College costs thousands of dollars and that is money that some people don’t have. If you look into the future, the people that are now going to college are the future workers of our world. There are so many brilliant minds out there that won’t be able to reach their full potential for the sole reason being that they don’t have enough money to pay for the full price of college.

Even with the fact that if you are born into poverty you are automatically born with less opportunities, some do make it; it usually comes with debt though. If college was free student debt would no longer exist or crush the younger generations. In America, if you graduate with less than $10,000 in student loan debt you are considered lucky. However, the average college debt is around $37,700 according to an article by CollegeRaptor.

If you were to graduate college without debt then students would be more likely to be able to buy houses, cars and much more sooner in their life rather than later. It isn’t just cars and houses that would benefit from college being free, but also physical and mental health too. For your mental health it would benefit because with less debt comes less stress generally. For your physical health it would be beneficial because with the money that you would have used to pay for college, you would be able to afford healthier food options and live a better life.