re: Can someone explain TOPS to me?

Higher education used to be properly funded. When I started as a freshman at LSU, tuition was about $500 per semester. Almost everyone could afford it. The university paid good salaries and we had a really good faculty, with good profs moving here from out of state to teach.

Then the jackasses in the legislature made a policy decision not to properly fund the university system, making tuition go up, a lot. So our top high school graduates started fleeing out of state for better schools and more affordable schools.

So this billionaire named Taylor put up his fortune to give free tuition for top Louisiana students to keep them here. The program was designed and targeted to the best. Income and need had nothing to do with it. It was to elevate our educated and professional class. But it was popular, so the legislature expanded it to cover more students.

Them the idiot legislature and Jindal started cutting more and more from higher education, further shifting the funding for colleges to the backs of students, and also making TOPS, as the now primary source of funding, more expensive.

Now they are cutting TOPS and still not funding the universities, driving them to bankruptcy and ruin.

Now my daughter, a top elite high school junior (like 4.0 and 35 ACT) has no intention of staying in state.

Can I say idiot legislature again?