alumni Digest, Vol 39, Issue 4

[Nick Gorton]

Hello Douglass

As I recall when I was at NCSSM.... most of the kids who went there
would be able to afford in state tuition in the UNC system. It may be
different today (I graduated in 88.) But I suspect that it is still
the case that despite being a merit based school, there is
disproportionate representation of students from affluent families –
since those are the ones who will more often succeed in a
'meritocracy' after a decade and a half of educational advantage.

If anything if the median income of NCSSM families is *higher than*
that of the rest of NC families, why should the taxes of poorer
families be subsidizing kids from wealthier families based only on
attendance at a school whose admissions criteria favor kids from more
affluent families to start.

Nick Gorton




> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:53:46 -0400
> From: "Douglas R. Massengill, Jr." <doug.massengill at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: An article from The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
> To: <alumni at ncssm.net>
> Message-ID: <461bc100.3215f884.4683.5f3e at mx.google.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> As I have argued to the North Carolina Democratic Party State Executive
> Committee (I led the 650 member body toward defeating a resolution calling
> for the repeal of the tuition grant), the NC House Education Committee, and
> Paul Leubke himself, the grant should not be repealed for NCSSM Students.
> The grant at NCSSM should be studied as a test case of how to reward bright
> young people across the state.
>
> A lot of people don't know that Paul Leubke's son graduated from NCSSM.  As
> such Rep. Leubke knows how hard NCSSM students work and how valuable the
> students as well as the institution are to the State of North Carolina.  It
> makes me wonder if Rep. Leubke isn't having a memory lapse that is
> preventing him from seeing the benefits of this grant, not only for the
> State of North Carolina, but for his own House district.
>
> I encourage you all to ask Mr. Leubke to reconsider.
>
> Warmest Regards,
> Douglas R. Massengill, Jr. '06
> Vice-President
> North Carolina Federation of College Democrats
> North Carolina State University
> North Carolina Teaching Fellow
> Political Science Education
> Non-Profit Studies
> doug.massengill at gmail.com
> (919) 749-0492
>
>
>
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R. Nick Gorton, MD
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The plural of anecdote is 'not data.' - Roger Brinner.

Few arguments are more dangerous than those that "feel" right but
can't be justified. -Stephen Jay Gould

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