VinhSama

When I was in 12, I volunteered to help feed the poor at a soup kitchen. When I was in high school, there was a mandatory volunteer requirement of 40 hours just to graduate. Volunteering isn't disgusting, it's valuable experience. It's no different than putting volunteer experience on a resume to get a job. Volunteers are in short demand; it'd be much more disgusting to deny help just because their intents aren't purely altruistic. Heaven forbid you help someone and help yourself at the same time.

This program is inherently discriminatory against people of low socio-economic status. The article clearly states that less than 2% actually qualified for a full ride, not to mention offenders from low socio-economic status are known to be less aware, or less willing to utilize these types of aid. This is seen from all sorts of offender rehabilitation programs and social aid programs. This will only lead the impoverished to be further marginalized.

Think of it this way, the man in Florida who was arrested 258 times by corrupt police for "trespassing" at his own place of work would not qualify for said program for no reason other than he was an impoverished minority, and was therefore more likely to be targeted by police and less likely to fight fraudulent charges.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2512374/Florida-poli...