*These stats are national... You are, as per usaul, trying to compare apples with oranges*

Recently, processes such as the FAFSA (Free Application for Student Aid), have allowed poorer students to gain a college education through government subsidies designed to eliminate the difference between the rich and poor.

The last 15 years has seen a dramatic rise in the demand for private tuition with a large proportion coming from poorer families who have seen the need for manual or semi-skilled work decrease and who correctly view the education of their children as the only way of their 'breaking free' of the inevitable long queues for a handful of lowly-paid jobs. The matter is often exacerbated by these children being in excessively large classes in schools which fail to attract the best teachers.

In this respect tuition has turned from the private governor/governess of the Victorian era providing education to a privileged few to a non-elitist and cosmopolitan service for the masses.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition