We turned on CNN this morning to these scenes. There were even cavalry charges at the protesters. Very thrilling. Emblazoned across the bottom of the screen was the headline "Students protest parliament vote to triple tuition!" Incredible, we thought! Can you image NYU's tuition being tripled? No one without a trust fund could attend. It would be criminal to restrict education to that elite few!
The CNN anchor seemed to be having similar thoughts. Hoping to wow her viewers with astronomical tuition numbers, she asked the correspondent on-scene (who was simultaneously trying to keep his cameraman from being trampled by men and beasts) how much triple tuition would be.
His response?
"Parliament will be voting to place a cap of 9000 pounds on tuition...that's about $15,000."
$15,000? I almost peed my pants with jealousy. Oxford, Cambridge...Leeds. For $15,000 a year? And British students are injuring police officers and shooting fireworks at police horses over this? Give me a break. Take one fewer holiday to the Mediterranean and get a summer job at Tesco, for crying out loud.
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