<p>I’m seeing a lot of what looks like excuses amongst the scorpions in the bottle here. California high school kids - wherever they were born - are not the enemy. If they’ve lived here for years, with their families working and paying taxes in California, they should have every bit as much claim on the diminishing benefit California taxes provide to our Universities as any other California family. Comments like
are an excuse, plain and simple. Whether or not some kid’s parents have a false federal document has no more relationship to whether California provides a discount to them as a California taxpayer than whether or not some kid’s parents have a DUI or don’t mow their lawn. Those things can be as “NOT ok” with you as you like, but they’re not actually a rational reason for discriminating against those kids in this way.</p>
<p>The parents of high school and college age kids shouldn’t be fighting amongst ourselves over the table scraps. We should be questioning why our society has apparently decided that the education of all of our best and brightest is of so little importance to our society that it’s no longer worth paying taxes for.</p>