Terrible students need to learn!
Being a student, you learn how to make a little money go a long, long way; or you do if you’re me, for example, in which case you scrimp and save and create ingenious solutions to problems that have vexed society for the last million years. Since you have nothing – or almost nothing – it’s easy to be frugal and to find the cheapest and most suitable options available. Or at least that used to be the way it was. Much as people talk about students being poor, the reality is that for many students, things couldn’t be easier and more comfortable. In fact, some students are doing far better than people twice their age – especially seeing as they may never have to pay that money back (if they don’t earn enough to be forced to).
Watching TV the other day – I admit it: I was waiting for 4×4 cars to come on, tearing through the mud, and I came across a documentary instead – I found myself watching a reality show about students and how they go about their day-to-day lives. It looked at 4 students who were total money-spending-nightmares and attempted to show them how they could be more frugal and thus not have such a big debt to pay back. I was appalled to see that the documentary only half worked as intended. Although the money-saving expert who presented the show managed to get 2 of the students to change their bad habits, he had little success with the other 2. And you know what? Well, I shall tell you: it really sickened me! It made me wonder if this was representative of every student in the country, and to what extent these problems affect us.
The country has developed these youngsters, and maybe if someone had said something sooner then things would have changed
To my mind, it isn’t enough to just ask the students to spend money. These people need real-world examples of how failing to heed this good advice will impinge on their future lives to come. Until that happens students everywhere will think that spending way beyond their budget is nothing too worry about.
Of course, it isn’t all the students'fault. The country has developed these youngsters, and maybe if someone had said something sooner then things would have changed. The fact that we now have an uphill battle on our hands is proof that something has gone very wrong in the last few years. Where it will end, none of us can really know.
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