Financial Aid = discrimination?

S0ad
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:39:17 +0000

I’ve meant plenty of poor people who are quite the opposite of lazy. I live in a bad town, and many of the students at the HS had to work 1 to 2 jobs, watch their younger siblings, cook and clean, and then, if they had time, do school work. Of course their grades are going to be lower than a kid with the doctors as parents. And unfortunately, because of that, they probably won’t get much of an education. I think there should be scholarships for people like this, because they had it rough as a child and deserve a second chance, perhaps away at a college so they don’t have to deal with their parents issues for a bit and can prove themselves.

I know that if I was working full time in high school, my grades wouldn’t have been nearly as good, and I wouldn’t have gotten any merit scholarships that basically allowed me to go to school. And the same holds true for my college grades when I transferred to a more expensive, private university. I work a part time job, but I would have had much lower grades if I was working a full time job to support myself, but yet some “poor” people still manage much better than myself.

I’m probably in the lower-mid class and my dad works extremely hard every day to make sure I don’t have to have a full time job and go to school, but its not possible for him to pay my college, and I’m extraordinarily appreciative of the aid I receive so I can go to school and concentrate on it.

And honestly some middle class to rich students are the laziest people I’ve ever met in my life. They party 6/7 nights of the week getting wasted, and spend an hour or two on work while their parents are paying the bill, along with allowances that supply them with the alcohol. Its ridiculous.

Yes, it is unfortunate that the middle class people kind of get screwed, but there state schools tend to be reasonable, though they’re not always ideal.