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The debt burden to middle class families and their kids is a big issue that Barry Glassner avoided answering.  Here's an example:  Whitman College, a small liberal arts school in Walla Walla, WA, charged $9,000 a year in 1981 when one of my sons entered.  Now my grandson is a student there (entered in 2008) and the tuition is $48,000 a year, no financial aid.  His parents are a grade school librarian and a family therapist--not wealthy.  Like comments about L&C, students complain about the lack of diversity, so I doubt that's where the money is going.   What accounts for the ballooning tuition? I wonder if it's really worth that much debt to go to a private college.

Estelle

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