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Price of Obama's 'College Affordability'

Jo334 Wrote: Sep 16, 2012 10:08 AM
@Robert: I totally agree with you! Not everyone is cut out for college. Here in Georgia we have had the HOPE scholarship which originally only required a B average to qualify. The colleges took advantage of the scholarship knowing that the student's grade point average (3.0 maintained to keep scholarship) was not checked until after so many hours taken. So, they encouraged students to go for the "five year" plan and not take as many hours the first year, so as not to lose their scholarship so quickly. Most of these kids were not college material and did lose their scholarships. The HOPE had to be revised due to kids who were not college material and the state schools increasing tution costs due to so many taking advantage of HOPE.
"No family should have to set aside a college acceptance letter because they don't have the money," President Barack Obama told the Democratic National Convention as he accepted his party's nomination in Charlotte, N.C., this month.

That sentence -- key in Obama's "college affordability" agenda -- says everything about this administration's approach to selling itself to the American voter.

What's wrong with the message? Let me count the ways.

--It ignores reality. There is no reason a qualified poor kid cannot get into college in the United States simply because of money.

Richard J. Vedder, director of Ohio University's Center for College Affordability and Productivity,...

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