Education as reparation
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.
Having the victims’ tuitions paid is a better donation because the people can know where their money is really going.
Universities like LSU are taking in as many students that can fit, but some institutions have no available on-campus housing and it is hard to find housing close to the school. This problem is what the universities are now trying to solve before they let all the students come to their campuses.
The universities will fill every class up to its maximum capacity and will allow students who were victims of the hurricane to obtain free counseling. It may be uncomfortable for a while, but that is the risk the universities are willing to make.
This program offered to the victims of Katrina is a monumental one and it shows that people still care about others and their education.
Food, water and shelter are all great things and are what the hurricane victims need right now, but education is also really important and the victims are going to need that for their future.
By having such a program, it also shows that people in the surrounding community not only care about feeding the victims or giving them housing, but it illustrates that people really care about continuing and bettering the victims’ education.
People need education and just because this natural disaster happened does not mean they should only concentrate on shelter and food, but concentrate on their education also.
Once Hurricane Katrina becomes a thing of the past and everything goes back to normal, the victims are going to have to get a job, but if they just sat down and did nothing then the process of going back to normal is going to be a really difficult one.
Essentially, the program’s accomplishment will be really helpful and it will make the future of all the hurricane victims more successful once the fixing is over.