How does the DREAM Act relate to privatization?
While researching the DREAM Act, I came to a huge realization. Though privatization is making higher education more accessible for some, it is making it completely unobtainable financially for others. With rising tuition costs and a large sum of loan debt as a possibility, a college education is just not financially possible for some students who do not qualify for Federal, State or school financial aid. Students who desire to further their knowledge after high school might just not be able to take advantage of the many educational opportunities present in our country. This feeling must be a frustrating one, and I can directly relate it to the feeling that many alien minors have after they graduate high school. Though they are fully capable to attend college, they simply cannot afford it because they are not eligible for Federal financial aid. Due to privatization, and college essentially becoming more of a business endeavor with the increase of for-profit universities, many American high-school graduates are feeling helpless toward their futures, just like alien minors feel without the passage of the DREAM Act.
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