Tuition Aid for Civil Servants

The people of L.A. are off-course and need to turn the ship around.

Let some people intending to work for two years in public and civic jobs--like teachers, police and firemen--work and live in disadvantaged communities, like South-Central Los Angeles, in return for having their college tuition waived or their housing paid during that time.

Doctors have that opportunity today.

This plan will benefit society because it will bring to those depressed communities people of higher education who have lifestyles, customs and traditions that would be shared and established in the neighborhood. Those teachers, police and firemen who live and work in those communities would probably bring friends and family to their homes. And the public servants would understand the problems and concerns of the community they serve and would find fast remedies to problems in the neighborhood.

This plan will bring upward mobility to those communities in time. Maybe I wouldn’t go for this, but my son would likely live anywhere if he got a job as a firefighter and did not have to pay a $15,000 college loan.

KATHLEEN C. SHARE

Woodland Hills