Vladimir Innit Lenin
25th November 2013, 21:24
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/nov/22/poorest-students-face-350m-cuts
Cutting grants for the poor. As a student from a poor background, I can attest to how difficult it is to get by without being able to rely on help from family. I had a job for the uni (which, funnily enough, was raising funds for poor students..) which was well paid and I still struggled with sky-high rents and textbooks, as well as transport back home, before you even get to living costs.
I know I shouldn't be surprised, and i'm not, but they're just such assholes. It's so fucking unfair. Education is the one thing that maybe, sometimes, under the right conditions, makes one's life a little bit more bearable and offers a potential way out - through economic mobility or political realisation - of our dead-end society. And the fuckers won't let us even have that now.
Cutting grants for the poor. As a student from a poor background, I can attest to how difficult it is to get by without being able to rely on help from family. I had a job for the uni (which, funnily enough, was raising funds for poor students..) which was well paid and I still struggled with sky-high rents and textbooks, as well as transport back home, before you even get to living costs.
I know I shouldn't be surprised, and i'm not, but they're just such assholes. It's so fucking unfair. Education is the one thing that maybe, sometimes, under the right conditions, makes one's life a little bit more bearable and offers a potential way out - through economic mobility or political realisation - of our dead-end society. And the fuckers won't let us even have that now.