12-04-2012, 08:41 PM
I'm just going to have a proper rant a second...
Why is it that the government believes that when you're 18, you can go to jail, you can serve in the forces, you can be taken to court, you could have been thrown out on the streets at age 16.... Yet still if you go to university, they want to know your parents income details so they can decide how much grant they give?
Just because you have parents who are "better off", why does it mean that they are forced to pay for your education - this hasn't been the case all the way through primary and secondary, why now - education either is something that IS made available to everyone, or ISN'T... There shouldn't be something that dictates that the people who's parents are well off should pay their way through and the people who's parents are NOT earning as much, to not have to contribute?
I believe it's completely fair that people who are at the lower end of the scale, who's parents CANNOT afford to, shouldn't have to, but the people in the middle area are worst affected, they are the genuine people who's parents earn a middle ground wage, work hard, often struggle to make ends meet, yet are penalised for earning too much, so their parents have to pay for them to go to university... They could earn less and save money because they don't have to pay their childrens way through university...
Extreme case - What's to say your parents wanted nothing to do with you, aren't paying your way through University, but you still live with them - you're f*cked, you cannot go, there's no feasible way you can...
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Why is it that the government believes that when you're 18, you can go to jail, you can serve in the forces, you can be taken to court, you could have been thrown out on the streets at age 16.... Yet still if you go to university, they want to know your parents income details so they can decide how much grant they give?
Just because you have parents who are "better off", why does it mean that they are forced to pay for your education - this hasn't been the case all the way through primary and secondary, why now - education either is something that IS made available to everyone, or ISN'T... There shouldn't be something that dictates that the people who's parents are well off should pay their way through and the people who's parents are NOT earning as much, to not have to contribute?
I believe it's completely fair that people who are at the lower end of the scale, who's parents CANNOT afford to, shouldn't have to, but the people in the middle area are worst affected, they are the genuine people who's parents earn a middle ground wage, work hard, often struggle to make ends meet, yet are penalised for earning too much, so their parents have to pay for them to go to university... They could earn less and save money because they don't have to pay their childrens way through university...
Extreme case - What's to say your parents wanted nothing to do with you, aren't paying your way through University, but you still live with them - you're f*cked, you cannot go, there's no feasible way you can...
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