Challenge: Accepted

[Marvin S]

From the posts on this subject it's apparent the thrill of earning something is not on some folks horizon - but it's OK for someone else to foot the bill for your children to get ahead . I feel sorry for your kids as your attitude will be ingrained into their thoughts & haunt them for the rest of their life . So what do you do if your kids don't meet the new criteria?

[huntinman]

What is the "new criteria"? Just saying they want to go? There are many kids going to college that would be better served if they were working a job, in the military or maybe learning a trade. Not all are cut out for it, yet our feel good society makes them all think they are geniuses if they can spell their names...

[road kill]

What is the "new criteria"? Just saying they want to go? There are many kids going to college that would be better served if they were working a job, in the military or maybe learning a trade. Not all are cut out for it, yet our feel good society makes them all think they are geniuses if they can spell their names...

America desperately needs more Poly Sci majors!!!!!

[JS]

The thought of even looking for a grant as you put it is just not how I was brought up. You want something you work for it.

You are pretty proud of working your way through school without taking any handouts. Rightfully so.

Maybe you have stated somewhere ... forgive me if I missed it ... did you and your husband get your education in private schools?

If not, was the cost of tuition a factor?

Have you forgotten that public schools are subsidized by the taxpayers in order to hold tuition down? So attending a public school IS in a sense "taking a handout". A sizable one at that.

I know you pay taxes, as do I, so that makes it just "getting back what you put in", but what about someone who does not take advantage of a public school? They still pay in. Were you going to school on their dime ... "taking a handout from them"? Even many poor people pay taxes, part of which goes to subsidize that public school whether they or their children will ever attend. Must be pretty humbling to think you took a handout from them.

JS

[MooseGooser]

And many of us would like to see a VOUCHER system put in place that allows us to take that Tax money and use it for a Voucher, that would let us CHOOSE what school our kid goes to..
Competition is a very good thig..

Teachers unions wont agree..

of course not!

[huntinman]

You are pretty proud of working your way through school without taking any handouts. Rightfully so.

Maybe you have stated somewhere ... forgive me if I missed it ... did you and your husband get your education in private schools?

If not, was the cost of tuition a factor?

Have you forgotten that public schools are subsidized by the taxpayers in order to hold tuition down? So attending a public school IS in a sense "taking a handout". A sizable one at that.

I know you pay taxes, as do I, so that makes it just "getting back what you put in", but what about someone who does not take advantage of a public school? They still pay in. Were you going to school on their dime ... "taking a handout from them"? Even many poor people pay taxes, part of which goes to subsidize that public school whether they or their children will ever attend. Must be pretty humbling to think you took a handout from them.

JS

That's pretty funny... sure they get public money... But the holding tuition down part is a joke. Compare tuition costs at post public univerities and the amount it has increased compared to everything else over the last 25 years. All the public subsidies are like all other tax money... wasted. College tuition is out of hand.

[JS]

That's pretty funny... sure they get public money... But the holding tuition down part is a joke. Compare tuition costs at post public univerities and the amount it has increased compared to everything else over the last 25 years. All the public subsidies are like all other tax money... wasted. College tuition is out of hand.

Duh!! Do you think maybe the rising cost of tuition at public universities MAY be related to the CUTS to education that have been going on for how long???? That was an issue in this past election ... did you miss that?

JS

[road kill]

Duh!! Do you think maybe the rising cost of tuition at public universities MAY be related to the CUTS to education that have been going on for how long???? That was an issue in this past election ... did you miss that?

JS

Not at all.......I think it's due to the compensation the labor gets.

The only people that can afford to attend some of these schools are the children of the people that work there!!!!

[huntinman]

Duh!! Do you think maybe the rising cost of tuition at public universities MAY be related to the CUTS to education that have been going on for how long???? That was an issue in this past election ... did you miss that?

JS

No... I think these universities have plenty of money. Look at the edowments that many of them have. Look at the land grants that many of them have. They waste millions on administration, monuments to themselves on campus etc... Cut all that crap out and lower the tuition. Sell off the land these state universities own. Use the endowments...

[Marvin S]

The only people that can afford to attend some of these scholls are the children of the people that are employed there!!!!

A slight correction - the children of employees of the system, in general, get a free ride, at someone else's expense. Just another free bus pass .