Blog 9:practice test 1

   The passage is talking about the in and out state tuition rates of legal and illegal students at the illinois colleges and universities. A vote of 112-4 at the illinois house which recently made them to pass a bill that allows young people in the us illegally to pay in-state tuition rate at the college, and this shouldn't have been an easy vote. The difference between the in-state and the out-of-state rate is about $8,604, and the people would'nt want to see any able student deprived of a good education but neither should they deprive their citizens from their rights. They a consined because of the fact that this people have no legal right to be present in the country but be entitled to a very expensive and valuable benefit of citizenship is ridiculous. And when the matter is agured the fact still remains that their parents pay tax here.The idea that i think is most significant is that the difference is between $5,302, the current in-state rate, and $13,903, the out-of-state rate.
    As the author said ''no one wants to see any able student deprived of a good higher education''. that means that if illegal immigrants can't afford to pay this out-of-state tution fee, they there for have no choice but to drop out from the school, mean while considering the fact that both legal and illegel parents pay taxes here, therefor benefiting to the economy.for instance i have a cousin who is currently attending the new york university, who latter on transfered to a two year college because the out-fo-state tution rate was very high for him and his family to afford, i also also have another cousin back home in Nigeria who got accepted in one of the university in dallas and couldn't come because they also couldn't afford it. And for me presently in the states paying taxs but still paying the out of state tution which is two times more than the in-state fee, i have to try to work hard to see if i could get a scholarship or something, so that i can take a little burden of my parents and keep on pursuing my dreams.
     For most student the out-of-state tution fee is a very big obstacle that hinder them from achiving their goal as a student, and i hope that i could be reduced to an acceptable and affordable rate.