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Instead of buying a yacht, this person is sending an entire kindergarten class to college

''26 kindergarten students at Rio Vista Elementary School in the US State of California have just had their educational futures guaranteed by a stranger.

Marty Burbank and his wife Seon are pledging to fund 2 years of community college and 2 years at a California State University or the equivalent amount for a University of each students’ choice.

The 26 students are in a class together because they all speak Spanish at home and faced language barriers when they started classes in English. Their teacher, Tessa Ashton, said the students came in knowing little English and most of them had never heard of college as an option...''

by Brandon Blackburn-Dwyer