<p>I doubt someone with a 1300 on their SAT would go to a Tier 4 university.</p>
<p>Florida students will have the face the cold-hard reality that students in the other 49 states face every year - loans.</p>
<p>My friends from New York are utterly amazed at how much I pay for overall expenses (living, tuition, books, etc.) Some of these guys pay upwards of 30k a year for tuition alone. Florida students simply don't realize how good they have it; if they complain about it being too much money, let's see how they fare in another state (say, in the Northeast) where expensive out-of-state and moderately expensive in-state is all you've got.</p>
<p>You have to understand how the lottery works. It does NOT supplement the education budget like the politicians want you to believe! It simply replaces money the state would otherwise pay out of its own pocket. The more the lotto makes, the more the state doesn't spend on education that year. Not only that, but everything made with the lotto goes to bright futures. Therefore, the more money the lotto makes, the worse education gets! The only benefit is bright futures, but soon Florida's students will be so dumb and brainwashed from the FCAT, that most won't even get into college with the scholarship!</p>
<p>You make a good point, but your tone is a little overdramatic. Take it down a couple notches.</p>