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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (242175)	1/15/2014 10:32:26 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541599

When universities decide who gets scholarships based on need, one of the factors that they use is how many children are in the family. That is taken into account, along with income, savings, and a host of other factors. Why can't the poorer kids go out and borrow the same amount of money? First of all, why are you assuming that "poorer kids" don't go out and borrow money? Second, guess what, people with lower incomes have access to less debt. Third, people with greater income have more resources to pay back loans. The main point though is that at a public university this "cost shifting" is not a decision to be made by the university administration. Why are you opposed to having the cost shifting policy debated in the light of day? Isn't that what should happen? In one sense, of course you are right. If the public decides that it wants to make a public university education out of the reach for people with less money than others, then it obviously has that right. But let's not pretend that this anything other than "class warfare" being waged by haves against the have not.