2008 Woodie Awards
Education as reparation
Yes- Katrina victims at least deserve to have their tuition paid at universities
By: Anthony Pantoja
Issue date: 9/15/05 Section: Insight
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Victims of Hurricane Katrina should be allowed to have their tuition paid for at any universities they want to attend.
Hurricane Katrina has destroyed or damaged thousands of schools in Alabama, Missouri and Louisiana.
More than 350,000 students have been left without a school.
In the past two weeks the victims of hurricane Katrina have gone through so much more than some people do in their whole lifetime; they have lost their houses and all of their memories have been destroyed because of the hurricane.
After experiencing this massive disaster, the victims deserve a break somewhere in their lives. It would be unfair for universities to charge tuition to students who have been affected by the hurricane because they would not be able to afford it; many have nothing left but their lives.
A lot of the victims are now homeless and would not be able to pay for tuition otherwise because they have to concentrate on how they are going to get their lives back to normal.
The program of paid tuition the universities are offering will help out the already struggling victims; paying for school is one less thing that they do not have to worry about.
One of the universities that is helping is Louisiana State University, offering the hurricane victims admissions for the fall semester. All they need from the victims are their previous school identification and require that the victim's school had been in the area that was affected by hurricane Katrina.
It would be a bad thing if all the students who were affected by the hurricane just stopped going to school and were not educated until everything goes back to normal.
The victims need education just like everybody else, and the program not only benefits the student, but it also helps their whole family.
Everywhere people go they are trying to help out the hurricane victims and have donations.
However, one negative thing about the donations is that people do not know if all their money is going to the right cause.
Hurricane Katrina has destroyed or damaged thousands of schools in Alabama, Missouri and Louisiana.
More than 350,000 students have been left without a school.
In the past two weeks the victims of hurricane Katrina have gone through so much more than some people do in their whole lifetime; they have lost their houses and all of their memories have been destroyed because of the hurricane.
After experiencing this massive disaster, the victims deserve a break somewhere in their lives. It would be unfair for universities to charge tuition to students who have been affected by the hurricane because they would not be able to afford it; many have nothing left but their lives.
A lot of the victims are now homeless and would not be able to pay for tuition otherwise because they have to concentrate on how they are going to get their lives back to normal.
The program of paid tuition the universities are offering will help out the already struggling victims; paying for school is one less thing that they do not have to worry about.
One of the universities that is helping is Louisiana State University, offering the hurricane victims admissions for the fall semester. All they need from the victims are their previous school identification and require that the victim's school had been in the area that was affected by hurricane Katrina.
It would be a bad thing if all the students who were affected by the hurricane just stopped going to school and were not educated until everything goes back to normal.
The victims need education just like everybody else, and the program not only benefits the student, but it also helps their whole family.
Everywhere people go they are trying to help out the hurricane victims and have donations.
However, one negative thing about the donations is that people do not know if all their money is going to the right cause.