lack of student aid

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com
Thu Jun 27 11:24:52 PDT 2002


At 01:10 PM 06/27/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Nearly 170,000 of the top high-school graduates from low- and
>moderate-income families are not enrolling in college this year
>because they cannot afford to do so, according to a report released
>on Wednesday by a group that advises Congress and the U.S. Education
>Department.

It's worse than that. When I was teaching a dozen years ago, most of my students were in the position of graduating from a third-rate college, with an average debt of about $40,000. I think that's what we would call indentured servitude.

Joanna



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