From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 14:06:26 MDT
I recently read a statistic that in the past year, parents from
low income families paid 25% (!!!) of their income to send their
kids to college.
Appalling.
I have no idea what all of your opinions of what "small portion"
is, but 25% of your income isn't "small" no matter how much or
how little you make.
If you're talking about the portion paid directly by parents
compared to the total cost to educate a child ... then you might
be right.
-- Dossy
On 2002.05.24, Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:54:09AM -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:
> > >I think it's horrible that children's educational opportunities
> > >are limited by the financial resources of their parents. It would
> > >be great to have a better way of funding child education.
> >
> > I respectfully disagree.
> >
> > This is incorrect, the average parent pays for only a small portion
> > of their childrens education, most of the real cost is paid by
> > non-parents.
>
> I don't think there is any disagreement between us. Yes, the average
> parent pays for only a small portion of their childrens education (at
> least in the U.S., I'm not sure about other countries). Parents can choose
> to pay more out of their own pockets, but most don't, even for children
> who would benefit from more educational resources.
>
> > I think everyone should pay an equal (small) portion of their taxes
> > toward education and the parents should pay the rest. If they wish
> > to have children they should pay for the cost of educating them.
>
> Phil's idea seems to be that children can voluntarily pay for their own
> education once they grow up. Don't you wish that you could send some money
> back in time to when you were a child so that you could have gotten a
> better education? Maybe with the appropriate financial market tools, you
> can. But I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, hence the request for
> clarification.
--
Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
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