Deal To Avert Government Shutdown Cuts Pell Grants For Up To 100,000 Students

<p>You say that poor kids cannot afford even low tuition rates. Well… the kids from middle to upper middle-class families cannot afford tuition in many fine schools. If it is Ok for those kids to either take out huge loans or forgo attending schools of their dreams, the same logic should apply to poor kids.</p>

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<p>I do not believe in borrowing huge amounts of money to attend any school. Period. Therefore, I do not advocate middle to upper middle class kids borrowing a lot to attend a “fine” school. As for forgoing the school of one’s dreams, that is life … and if a CC is the school of a poor kid’s dreams, what is the alternative if he has to forgo that?</p>