2008 April 07 | Rowsey Blog

Who Will Pay For College

April 7, 2008

Today in the Columbus Dispatch, there is an interesting article relating to Gov. Strickland and Eric Fingerhut’s plan to send our brighest seniors off to college when they are 17 years old and still in high school.

This plan on which I have already blogged, will cost the state money.  As most know, education is an expensive endeavor, but one in which the state and federal governments should be spending more money.  In my opinion, there are few others things in life as important as educating our youth.

According to the article:

The governor and education Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut have left that up to school districts and colleges to hash out.

Isn’t that nice of Fingerhut?  We already have a system that has been declared unconstitutional on several occasions so Fingerhut’s idea is to throw his hands up in the air and hope that someone else will solve this paroblem.  Interesting to say the least.

As I previously stated, my beef with the Seniors to Sophomores Program is not the cost associated with the program.  Rather it is the brain drain effect that could devastate our high schools.   Instead of having our brightest students in classroom to be leaders of the school and positive role models for their peers, we are going to ship them off to a place in which they are emotionally not ready to handle.  Your thoughts?

Posted by Jason Rowsey | Filed Under Education, Money Matters, Ohio Government, Ted Strickland | Leave a Comment