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Posted By: Diana In Response To: $1500? (Mr Bluto ^_^)
Wednesday, 26 July 2006, at 2:40 p.m.
> IMHO, you don't want to be paying for your child's education if you don't
> have to. Let your kid pay for it when she graduates and gets a job. That
> is more incentive for her to get her act together and really study
> something that she knows will help get her somewhere when she gets her
> degree. Degrees mean nothing if you don't take the initiative to get a job
> and many degrees mean noting at all in the job marketplace.
> I could go on and on about this. Just make sure your daughter isn't going
> to college just "for the experience". That simply means she
> wants to party for 4 to 5 years and that does neither of you any good,
> especially if you are taking out PLUS loans and footing the bill yourself.
I agree.
I realize you didn't ask for opinions who should pay for college, but my two cents worth too...
I have a 22 year old who just graduated in June (2 majors, summa cum laude, had a job before she graduated, we paid some AND she worked 3 part-time jobs) and she has no debt. Yes, she acted responsibly and worked her butt off and she applied for scholarships and grants. The fact that she went to a small affordable school, in-state, rather than some expensive school elsewehere, certainly helped.
I also have a 19 year old son attending a different state school - great kid but quite different in his study habits, to put it mildly, had unacceptable grades first semester - he's finding out this summer that Mom & Dad don't pay if he plays. He's taking 2 summer school classes AND working to make up for it. Think he's learned his lesson.
I think it's a great idea to make sure kids work to pay for as much school as they can - and yes, some kids DO pay their own way completely, it just takes longer - even if they have to work a year or so after they graduate to save some money. Odds are they'll be a LOT more mature and have a lot better learning experience.
I do grant-writing part-time, and it's pertinent to note that employers almost ALWAYS can find "qualfied" candidates on paper (i.e. with a college degree), but finding someone who's RESPONSIBLE and HARD-WORKING is a big problem.
Diana
Cell phones for cash... hopefully!!!!
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