Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: Economic Issues -- Reply to Creighton Message-ID: <714@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 16:31:32 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.714 Posted: Thu Mar 28 16:31:32 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 29-Mar-85 01:26:29 EST References: , <1483@dciem.UUCP> <5352@utzoo.UUCP> <559@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 22 > Often I think a major advantage the middle-class has over the poor > and many working-class children is simply the knowledge of what > opportunities are available to them. Many poor people think > that there is no way they can afford to go to college. While > Reagan is doing his best to make this true, it is not true yet: > in fact if poor students study hard, then they probably can go to > college with financial aid. Indeed. I don't know how much things have changed since '78-'82, but financial aid enabled me to attend a rather expensive private school (CMU), with *no* help needed from parents. Having poor parents was a big *help* in getting that financial aid too. That portion of the 'cycle of poverty' that goes: 'poor parents => poor education' always puzzled me for that reason. With the financial aid available 5 years ago, anyone, no matter how poor, could afford to attend at least a state school, or something. Maybe the point Sevener raised above explains why that link in the cycle of poverty still seems to be operating. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "Parts is parts."-Jack the Ripper