Letter: Reader disagrees with column

Dear Editor,

Mr. Jack Smith wrote an article in the last issue of the Star which stated that college shouldn’t be free. He was responding to President Obama’s idea that two years of community college should be free for interested students. Mr. Smith seems to feel that post high schoolers should have to get loans to go on to higher education. I disagree.

On the day I turned 18, my father asked me if I was planning on going on to college. I had applied for scholarships and had been awarded a couple of them before I graduated from high school. I told my father that, yes, I was planning on...

 

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