College tuition

Tuition and required fees at UT Austin for 15 hours (a standard full course load) in the mid-1960s when I graduated from High School: $50 per semester.

Cost of a college degree at the flagship campus of the University of Texas System:

$50/semester X 2 = $100/year

4 years of college = $400

Adjusting for inflation, in 2020 dollars:

For the 2019-2020 academic year, tuition and fees at UT Austin for 15 hours:

For an aspiring teacher, that would be:

$5,342/semester X 2 = $10,684/year

4 years of college = $42,743

So, for me, and for Texans my age, we could get a college education for the 2020 equivalent of $3,198.78.

Young people today have to pay - or realistically for all but the children of the wealthy - go into debt for, $42,743.00.

I do not want to have to listen to anyone my age ever again say, "Well, I worked my way through college," or "I paid my own way through college."

Yeah, I did too. But you know what? For us, that was possible.

For young people today, it's not.

Quit slamming today's young people for not being able to do what we were never asked to do.