The situation for students is pretty close to a double bind situation [1]:
- Get loans and go to school, or I (your family, society, the job market) will punish you.
- Do not get loans, or I (the economy, lenders, your credit score) will punish you.
- You must got to higher education and get a degree, but only if you want to. ("college isn't for everybody", except all we ever say is a HS education is a dead end).
- With a blaming tertiary of "You should have already know that and realized what an issue large student debt was before taking the loans. Why are you trying to act like such a victim?"
And I admit, I've fallen into this previously of "how did they borrow so much money?" Except its this same issue of "we put you in a bad situation, and then blame you for not escaping earlier."
- Get loans and go to school, or I (your family, society, the job market) will punish you.
- Do not get loans, or I (the economy, lenders, your credit score) will punish you.
- You must got to higher education and get a degree, but only if you want to. ("college isn't for everybody", except all we ever say is a HS education is a dead end).
- With a blaming tertiary of "You should have already know that and realized what an issue large student debt was before taking the loans. Why are you trying to act like such a victim?"
And I admit, I've fallen into this previously of "how did they borrow so much money?" Except its this same issue of "we put you in a bad situation, and then blame you for not escaping earlier."
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind