From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 04:21:15 MDT
James Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 13:06, Dossy wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>
>
> Nobody is forcing low income families to support their children in
> college, so this figure at any level is meaningless beyond demonstrating
> the personal values of some individuals.
>
> In fact, I don't understand what is "appalling" about anybody
> voluntarily paying for their children's college education. Many
> children from both high and low income families have to work their way
> through college, so it is clearly a personal choice on the part of the
> parents in question and hardly necessary by any means.
>
Having worked for a some semesters in college and having had
sufficient funds to not work in others I know that generally not
working in college makes it a lot easier to go fully into
academic work. It is quite advantageous.
I see your point that it is actually good that many families
care that much. But, I do find it appalling that our society
will spend $30,000/yr per person in our outrageously huge
prision population but canot consistently make available even
$10,000/yr per person who wants to go to college and can keep a
reasonable GPA. It seems pretty backwards to me.
- samantha
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