Do free grants help students?

Yes, grants all the way.

Also, when I first read your question, I thought ‘grants’ was ‘giants’.

Grants allow people who can’t pay to be able to go to school. Of course grants are helpful.

The accountability thing, of course, is a more debatable manner. I generally think that there should be pretenses of accountability to keep people from abusing the system, but I certainly hope that nobody expects to collect on that debt from someone who dropped out of college.

Any money helps students.

I’m in agreement with @Allie on this.

Are there grants that aren’t free?

@elenuial I’m trying to figure out what “pretenses of accountability” means but I’m stumped. Help me out. Meanwhile I’m enjoying the idea.

@susanc Just that the grant-givers should make a big show of how it’s important to stay in school and how you’ll have to repay the debt if you drop out, but not actually harass them if it happens. When you consider the small likelihood of them making significant amounts of money, and how much more miserable their lives will be when you gave them a grant in the first place, it just doesn’t seem worth it to abuse people like that.

Kind of like how some parents tell their kids to be back by midnight on prom night, but tend to be okay if they come back before 3am or so. It’s to make sure they actually do come home, not to punish them unduly.

Free to the student only – the taxpayers pay for these, and anyone who didn’t have the sense of responsibility to be grateful to parents and relatives wouldn’t be grateful to the taxpayers either.