About $125 a month, if memory serves. Of course, that was when PopeHat was in 1st grade, and in a small town in East Texas, so..../2 Anyway, my first off-campus apartment was $625/month — a basement but close to school. My first post-law-school employed apartment was $650, and it was dated, but pretty nice aside from overlooking the back alley and dumpsters. How much was your first off-campus place?
— HatInProSe (@Popehat) July 31, 2021
Sunday, August 01, 2021
For My Next Rant: What I Paid For State Tuition
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Yet people wonder why people want debt relief. My room just off campus cost me $75 a month and I barely could afford it and that was a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteThe price of public universities is abominable but the price of housing is worse. I wouldn't advise anyone in high school to go to college unless they lived close enough to commute or if they were going to learn a trade they could support themselves with. I think one of the worst problems we have are that so many jobs and careers that don't need a bachelors degree have had that requirement placed on those who want to do it. I have a sister-in-law who has been spectacularly good at every job she's ever had but she inevitably ran up against the limit on advancement due to the fact that she had to drop out of college because she couldn't afford it. She was demonstrably more competent than her college credentialed boss in any number of those jobs, some of them admitted it, themselves.
My brother the carpenter says that no people much younger than fifty from around here went into carpentry, that most of the people he's meeting are immigrants, many here from Brazil and Lebanon with some from Haiti. I think the movement in my region to pretend that the public schools were prep schools, a lot of it coming from that prep-Ivy idiot, Ted Sizer, is responsible for that. I remember one of the teachers begging the school board to keep vocational classes in the high school as part of their "reform" of the Sizer kind because a lot of the kids were not going to go to college and needed the skills they would be taught there. They, instead, followed the superintendent's recommendation to drop those. The results have been a disaster.
I’m a huge fan of vocational ed. We need plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc.
DeleteAnd yeah, that $125 was when minimum wage was about $1.31.
I was telling my students when I was a TA in the late ‘70’s that college was no guarantee of a good job (despite the prevailing PSA’s of the day). My daughter has an A.S. In a vocation (drafting). She’s much better off than if she had a B.A.
My personal conspiracy theory is that the colleges used the Boomers to get rich, and liked it, so the state schools pressured the states to raise tuition, and they all lobbied for government backed student loans.
And here we are.
A friend and I split the left side of a duplex for half of $37.50 per month each. Of course I did get an occasional mouse in my sock drawer.
ReplyDeleteAh, dem was de days!
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