Dear Sir, hi there, this isnt going to be a very formal letter, as I dont have the time. i hope you read this, and I reals ie that one letter sint going to change anything but Ive been brought up to know that if I feel strongly about something then I should do something about it and its something ive done to this day. well this is something i feel pretty strongly about. Im form a part of my town where the average income is lb 6500 roughly. My dad is on Incapacity Benefit and my mum is unemployed. You would put us in Social class IV i’d say.
The drug problem is rife in my area, (the campaigns do ont world, I wonder why, but that’s another issue), violent crime is high, and most children leave school in 4 th year or as soon as possible. I am at uni doing Medicine. Im going to be a Doctor. My parent get lb 6500 a year. Im going to be a doctor. You might say im doing well for myself considering most of my age group and and on drugs somewhere.
I had to take out a loan. I had to tae out another loan to pay for a computer for myself (my parents cant afford it).
So not only am I in lb 3000 debt for each of the 5 yrs of my course but im lb 1500 in debt for that. To deal with this i have to work 15-30 hrs a week, and im a student! Its usually closer to 30. In addition to this im doing medici en, which im sure you know is pretty stuff.
I work 30 hrs a week, study when i can, never mind a social life, and im in lb 16000 debt. Is this any way to treats someone trying to better themselves. Would I be better being unemployed, giving up at uni, and taking dole money. I wouldnt like to think so, that’s why Im at uni, so my kids dont grow up in an area like mine. Yet, it seems like im being punished as much as possible. Oh, and i get taxed too, yipe e, even though im in lb 16000 debt, a student, and working to pay to live.
I suppose you get the point, and what i want to know is why am I being punished. Is it not enough that ill be in the highest tax bracket possible in 20 years time and that in 3 years time, ill be working 90-100 hours a week for God knows how little money and how poor conditions. Do you think this is an ideal situation for me to be studying a course to get a degree which you supposedly feel is very important. It would be a damn sight easier if i didnt need to work and come out to all this debt. I d nt ask for much, just enough to pay my mum to keep me (Lord knows she cant afford to keep me for nothing) and i would happily work for the rest, since I have been since i was 15. I guess you hera this all the time, but you teak about tackling deprivation by increasing opportunities and getting more ‘poor’ kids into Uni, well i made it but i dont know if my two sisters will if the situation keeps up, so i just want you to hear.