Education of black people in Virgin Islands

[clydefrand]

I was recently talking with someone who had lived on St. Thomas. She is a very racist white woman who had lived there for several years. She told me that all of the black students on the islands were sent to college and that our government paid for their education. I doubted this, but I haven't been able to find references to this subject.

Does anyone here know anything about this subject? I've tried to search the topic, but I can't find anything that tells about that except one site that I found that said that only 2 in 10 students go to college.

She is one of those that hates black people and of course that would include our President now and everything he is trying to do. We are both senior citizens and of course she is opposed to everything he wants to do including the health care program. When she said that she didn't want the government to take over our health care system, I reminded her that she also gets Social Security and Medicare. Yeah, but....

Thanks for your replies.

[murielm99]

1. Do we have any DUers from there? n/t

[Historic NY]

2. Umm the US Virgin Islands are us.

http://www.uvi.edu/sites/uvi/Pages/Current-Students.aspx?s=CS
http://www.uvi.edu/sites/uvi/Pages/Financial_Aid-Home.aspx?s=CS

Its a US Territory with only about 57000 residents...hence a small student population which also included those from the mainland and other locations.

[Hannah Bell]

4. um, she's talking about the british virgin islands.

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




Substantial revenues are also generated by the registration of offshore companies. As of June 2008, 823,502 companies were so registered (of which 445,865 were 'active'). In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41% of the world's offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands. Since 2001, financial services in the British Virgin Islands have been regulated by the independent Financial Services Commission. While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals ("belongers") in the insurance industry.

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

Education
The British Virgin Islands operates several government schools as well as private schools. There is also a community college, Hamilton Lavity Stoutt Community College, that is located on the eastern end of Tortola. This college was named after Honourable Lavity Stoutt (Chief Minister).<9>

[clydefrand]

5. Yes, I agree. The US Virgin Islands are us.

Thanks for the links. I see no difference in their ability to ask for financial aid as we do in the U.S. The woman who is made the statement wasn't stating they applied for financial aid...only that our government paid ALL of their tuition without mentioning that the aid is based on personal income of the student/family of same.

I did find one link that said only 2 in 10 graduates of the U.S. Virgin Islands attend college. That was '09 figures. If that is still the case, then not much is spent there. Education should be for everyone, everywhere, just as health care should be.

[d_r]

3. I don't know but

she is probably talking about financial aid, pell grants, stuff like that.

[donco6]

6. If we don't do it, we should.

there are so few opportunities for kids in the VI, sending them to college has to be the best idea to prevent a huge jobles population.