UC Blue and Gold Promise

mom2collegekids
Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:29:14 +0000

I think it’s fine for taxes be used to help pay for tuition and maybe books. But, once it’s beyond that it becomes excessively expensive and frankly, welfare.
Do you realize that many people who are paying those taxes can’t afford to send their own kids away to a UC? How fair is that?

Most kids can get a fine education by attending a state school ( a CSU or UC) that they can commute to.

But, we’ve encouraged this idea that kids can skip over their local CCs and CSUs and go elsewhere and someone else is supposed to pay for that? Why?

If a student wants to go away to school, then he should fund most/all of those costs…thru loans, work-study, or summer job earnings.

Yes, using tax dollars for room and board is essentially welfare. We pay for K-12 tuition, we don’t pay for K-12 kids to go to boarding schools. Going away to a state school is not some right.

We told you from the beginning that B&G doesn’t cover everything. We told you that you misread the site, but you didn’t believe us.