As it is, it’s simply not fair to ask working families in NC, most of whom never attended a UNC institution and whose children will never attend a UNC institution, to have to pay the way of those few who do. In the words of the late UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Michael Hooker:
I call it the “reverse Robin Hood scheme,” but nobody seems to listen. We believe that the average family income at Chapel Hill is a little more than twice the average family income of the state. I find it ethically objectionable to have the working class of North Carolina subsidizing the education of the upper middle class.
That objection applies to well beyond the question of parents’ illegality ? or “undocumentation.” But rewarding families for successfully breaking the rules only encourages more such rule-breaking, and it heaps one more ethical objection against the scheme.
Good riddance, in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants, even academically promising ones.
