Posted Sep 4, 2003 by Clive the flying ostrich: Thingite Warlord Emeritus.
Graduates are all going to earn 40,000 + more in our careers than non-gradutes therefore this justifies any price hike in tuition fees. 
I'm starting my post-grad course in a few weeks, the tuition fees alone are £4370, I'm waiting to find out if I've secured a bank loan to pay for that yet. but if policy top-up fees go ahead, that sort of sum might be not be unfamiliar for undergraduates.
A scary prospect indeed. 
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Posted Sep 7, 2003 by Flying Betty- Now with added nickname tag!
I am!
I think my favorite was when my college announced that tuition was going to rise more than inflation again, but it was ok because we were getting so many more things with our education. Yeah, yeah, like the merit scholarships so that we can have a better basketball team, while they just cut my need-based scholarship because my mom got a bit of a raise. It's impossible for anyone on any sort of middle class income to afford a private university, I think our tuition alone is up to $30,000 a year, you have to live somewhere, and they keep increasing the minimum amount of money you're allowed to give them for meal plans.
Even public colleges are increasing their costs astronomically; there's going to be a lot of people who don't return to my state's schools (New York) because the tuition went up and they basically don't give scholarships.
And as for K-12 education...
People vote on school taxes, and they shoot down anything that involves much if any increase in taxation, besides which most places can't afford any new taxes. The government funds a lot of it but the welathy suburban school get a lot of money because they're rich, the really poor inner city schools tend to get more money because everyone knows they need it. BUT, the poor rural places that no one's ever heard of don't get much of anything at all since they're not absolutely as desperate, even though it's close, but they don't get much attention either. And the wealthy suburban places consistently shoot down any plan that involves taking any of their money and giving it to poorer areas that don't have any income worth speaking of.
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