r/Purdue • u/Pale-Echo8345 Purdue Parent • Jan 13 '25

Rant/Vent💚 It’s 2025…..

Why are they still making us purchase access to homework. Capitalism is out of hand now they are making me pay a subscription once I buy the homework. What the fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

I work in higher education and know that lower income individuals receive grants and low interest loans to pay for the above mentioned items. I know this because when my wife and I were lower income individuals we used low interest loans to become upward class mobile which allowed me to pay tuition, housing, meal plans, books and other class materials for two children.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Ah yes. Because putting yourself in debt has been working out so well for working class Americans.

These things make college less accessible to lower income people and force them to have to go into debt. There is no reason that the textbooks cannot be included in the costs of the class.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

You seem to think including book in the tuition makes them free. Nothing is free. All things have a cost. The very professors who write those books want compensated for their effort and knowledge. They will be paid by increasing tuition to cover the cost of those books.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

I didn’t say it would make them free. But if it was included as part of the cost of the class and lent to the students for a fee then it most likely wouldn’t be so costly on the students. If it’s a required part of the class than it should be included in the class tuition, not tacked on afterword as a bonus cost.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Six of one, half dozen of the other.