Educational Debt Relief Program Suggested

Out of seven siblings, I being the middle child, I am the first to go to college, which means my three older brother and sisters decided not to go to college. I believe that was a mistake on their part, but they had their reasoning. It just costs too much and my family doesn’t have a lot of money. Sure, I’m paying for college with loans, but I know I’ll end up making a lot more money than my brothers and sisters.

In the case of my family, the cost of college and the fact that they would have to pay back loans kept my older brother and sister from going to college. A lot of people actually think this way, and not going straight into the workforce sometimes seems more appealing than going into debt, in this way it is actually a fairly common case. But this kind of thinking can have adverse effects on some professions.  

The profession of Social Work is just one that can suffer from this thinking. Social Work doesn’t that well. People who take out student loans and go into Social Work are going to have trouble paying off their loans as well as living expenses. This makes the profession seem undesirable for most college students. For people who want to go to school for Social Work, the low pay and the high college costs keep them from doing just that.

In Ohio, they are currently facing a shortage of Social Workers because of the low pay and the high educational costs. Recruiting Social Workers is next to impossible in Ohio. It is because of this that people in Ohio are proposing an educational debt relief program to assist Social Workers with their education loans, not just in Ohio but throughout the states.

I think this a great idea. It gives motivation for people to go into Social Work, and for those who already wanted to but couldn’t, it lifts that preventative block. But why should it only help Social Workers? Why not other professions, like Education? I know, I’ve seen how the news, especially Foxnews has been saying teachers got it made, riding on all those benefits, making so much money…since the governor of Wisconsin decided to take the rights of teachers. But really, teachers don’t make a lot money, they actually have a pretty income and are definitely underappreciated for their work. Personally, I couldn’t help laughing a little when I heard some of the Foxnews commentators deriding teachers for having it made yet still complaining, when they themselves make god knows how much for just opening their mouths and letting whatever come out of it for said length amount of time.

I think an educational debt relief program is a great idea, for Social Workers, Teachers, and any other low income profession. If we want to people to continue going into these kinds of fields, we have to make it plausible and possible, at least to the point where they don’t have to a second job just to pay the bills.