School tuition increases...yay!

I can totally fake being happy about this, but of course I'm not. Because Mr. Schwarzenegger, in all his wisdom, decided Californians don't really need to be educated anyway, he made massive cuts in education. This effected my school, which is why I absolutely can not be upset with them. I understand the situation they were in. They lost money that would have supported 95,000 students. Anyway, I found out this morning they increased tuition effective immediately (immediately meaning this upcoming quarter).

Once again, I am not angry with the school, I'm angry with politicians who just think education is a throw away expense. Also, I'm getting a student loan and the school has said that students demonstrating a financial need will have the cost offset with more financial aid. I just get nervous. The whole reason this break in my education started was because I couldn't pony up the money. I bet these same politicians wonder why there's not enough educated people in the workforce. Okay, I need to stop because I'm not trying to get all political. I know I'm worried over nothing, but I have gone to a school where they decided to *retroactively* increase tuition and everybody owed. Luckily, my tuition was paid for by the government that year, and it didn't effect me, except that it did because now I wonder... What if my school now finds a need to retroactively increase tuition and I can't pony up the money? This is made worse by the fact that at this moment I'm relying so heavily on loans for school since I don't qualify for grants and have yet to win a scholarship. I probably shouldn't worry so much about it but I am kind of curious about just how many students are going to schools that just told them "effective immediately, we will be increasing your student fees".