By Dani Jean Keinz
1:22 p.m.
Why do some professors think that students are made out of money? I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t qualify for financial aid, so everything I have to pay for comes out of my own pocket.
I understand that professors can’t help the price of books, but they are aware of those prices and continue to require multiple books.
In one of my classes this semester, I was told I needed two books, totaling $350. Add tuition for that class alone and we’re roughly at $450.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, my teacher then required us to buy specific software to use to view his PowerPoints, which was about $25. On top of all of that, we have to have general school supplies, which I spent another $25 on.
That’s $500 for one class.
It’s not just the one class though. In another, we were given an entire page of supplies we had to have to bring to class every day. One of my professors requires we print enough of each assignment for the entire class to have their own copy—we have assignments on a daily basis.
This is honestly just crazy to me! Some of us are too busy going to school to hold a job, some of us can’t find a job, and some of us have better things to do with our money than buy a bunch of stuff we’ll use for a semester and then throw away.
Professors have been in our shoes; they know how it is. Yet they continue to require us to spend so much money.
If anyone out there can tell me why, I’d greatly appreciate it, because as of now I’m baffled.
