Local high school students devastated about the recent changes to TOPs.

Kaitlin Melancon, a sophomore at Comeaux High tells KLFY’s Brooke Silverang.

“My friend Jake, he called me up yesterday and was like ‘they cancelled TOPs… whats is this… what’s wrong with them.’”

High school students across Acadiana were relying on TOPs to help them get through college and were caught off guard by the cut.

Madeline Begnaud, a junior at Lafayette High feels like a lot of people were depending on TOPs to go to college and further their education.

Senior at Iota High, Aron Ducan, adds she’ll have to take a year off after she graduates from high school to save up money for college. She says, “We worked so hard the last four years of high school and now being that, say we have a 4.0 and a 27 on our ACT, now we get nothing for it, we worked our butts off for nothing.” Ducan tells KLFY that she sat in her room thinking “What in the world am I going to do next.”

Student athletes are also aware of what the changes to TOPs means for them and their futures.

Ayanna Williams who is a freshman at Comeaux High School wants to go to a D1 school for softball and now know she’s is going to have to work even harder for a scholarship.

Louisiana high school students are angry and feel that they should not be punished for the state’s poor budgeting.

“Instead of cutting TOPs for us to go to college why don’t you cut the governments pay checks instead of cutting our stuff.”