Affluence, College & Opportunity | National Catholic Reporter

Affluence, College & Opportunity | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: We had and still have in Iowa a better one - both in state rates and an Iowa tuition grant for anyone who goes to private school - eliminating the difference in cost between public and private tuition.  Does it help the rich? Probably - I guess that depends on how you define rich.  It helps middle class and even poor people - from doctors kids on the top to an engineer's kids in the middle.  I think most poor kids, if they went anywhere, went to community college because income and grades really are related for the vast majority.  When my sister bought a house in Maryland, I am sure she was thinking that College Park was a benefit.  Now that my brother-in-law and she are, shall we say, not at all poor, she may want him there, but she may want him in Georgetown or Harvard, etc.  He will probably not be a scholarship student - though may earn one - and financial aid may or may not be a concern.  It likely will be for my daughter, but who knows?  The point is not confessional, it is that these schools should be available so that plane fair need not be a college cost (my daughter likes the arts, so she may go to Charlottesville, probably not to Blacksburg if her math homework is an indication). Of course, because Virginia is big, Charlottesvile may be a plane ride in the winter.  One final point - DC Students get in state tuition everywhere, particularly locally, giving DC kids the right to a good and affordable education as if they were Marylanders.  Fred ignores that.  Shame on Fred.