Re: April 11 Megan Schrader column.
Asking the next generation to shoulder the burden of the ever-increasing cost of higher education by opting out of the best education available to them seems wholly unfair. Sure, teaching our children to be fiscally responsible and realistic about school debt is a starting point, but it doesn’t address the underlying systemic problem. If we leave this as an issue to be addressed by the next generation — through boycotts of the university system by those who can’t afford to pay it up front — we will likely end up with an even more classist system in which the richest among us continue to consume higher education at whatever cost, while the rest stick it to the man by attending community college. Between climate change, Social Security failure, collapsing infrastructure, and an already income-divided education system, haven’t we put enough on the next generation’s plate?
Elise Grover, Denver
The writer is an assistant professor of journalism and public relations at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
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