HOPE Scholarship

And state tuition waivers.

Like, I would imagine the Hope Scholarship's involved in that some kind of way, right? While Rick Jackson's political advertisements, she writes, and foundation highlight his leadership in establishing these resources.

And again, let's give credit where it's due.

He was the spoon stirring the drink in a lot of ways, including taking on Burt Jones to help push this through in the Georgia State Senate where Burt Jones had the gavel.

So they still do that like a B program where you get like free tuition in Georgia.

uh like uh the hope scholarship they do like hope scholarship and then zell miller but uh they moved hope up where it's like 100 i don't think zell miller does anything anymore what really i think i didn't see that motherfucker this year not for grad school just for undergrad and then you only get four years so if you take an extra year that's on you makes sense makes sense

did you know about this The Hope Scholarship? Yeah.

I've heard of that before, yeah.

Yeah.

First of all, I don't think $15,000 or $10,000 to $20,000 is a lot of money to learn a skill.

Now, maybe that's just me personally, you know, and they could say, well, you can go to a trade school, a government-backed trade school, and only spend $4,000 or $5,000, or in Georgia, get the Hope Scholarship, and you don't pay.

Well, the difference is that the government's paying for it, right? So, I mean, the last time I looked, my teachers don't work for free.

And then I had a fight with this one man, and I have to stop myself because I don't really want too many people hating on me.

To any sport? For sure.

And the Hope Scholarship helps us out a lot here as well.

But we do have walk-on spots and you start to see that across the board at the Division I level.

So if you're looking at a golf for us, one thing that came out with this new settlement is they capped roster limits.

I, I mean, it'd be...

I, I did back flips if the Hope Scholarship came back.

It'd be amazing.

That's right.

You can't get a good participation move into the next grade of school.

And then we got the Hope Scholarship.

I was one of the first two years they gave that when I was graduating high school.

Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah, so 1996 was a really phenomenal year.

Not only did we have the Olympics, we also had the Hope Scholarship, which was new back then.

So Hope was passed into law in 1993 when I was in high

school.

And here I am saying like, I don't think I can go.

And what a person, a friend in class was like, I think there's something called the hope.

And that's how I first learned about the Hope Scholarship.

So I needed the Hope Scholarship, I needed the Pell Grant, and I needed to work.

And then when you turn 30 or 35, whatever, and you're ready to start your family, you can move to one of the suburbs and have world-class public education.

And Hope Scholarship does make it attractive for families as well.

So I think, you know, using that kind of long-term planning, legacy real estate framework.

If I was a company, especially a lot of the financial services companies that are leaving New York, Atlanta is the best place to retain your employees and really build this out for generations.