please, if you can't make it in SIX years, you never will... feh
Posted on 05/20/2012 7:47:29 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A mother of four who was laid off in 2008, Danielle Torno had planned on turning her life around next year with the help of a Cal State East Bay business degree.
Instead, the 36-year-old San Jose resident will be searching for another solution because of a little-noticed congressional decision to reduce or eliminate Pell Grants for hundreds of thousands of the poorest college students.
The changes take effect July 1, and students like Torno will bear the brunt of the reforms, which are expected to save $11 billion over 10 years.
Among those who will lose Pell Grants in the summer are at least 65,000 new college students without high school diplomas and 63,000 who, like Torno, have spent more than six years in college. Changes in income requirements will reduce or eliminate grants for nearly 300,000 others.
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
Among those who will lose Pell Grants in the summer are at least 65,000 new college students without high school diplomas and 63,000 who, like Torno, have spent more than six years in college.
“For many students who never finished high school, the loss of Pell Grants could put college out of reach”
Do you think? And the taxpayers are going to save how much?
I knew of so many students who took their Pell Grants and paid for furniture, cars or other luxuries once they got that money while I worked two jobs to pay for my college and drove an old car with hand me down furniture.
Stop the fricking gravy train. I have absolutely no sympathy.
Guess she’ll just have to work her way through college like I did.
Uhm ,you mean the free ride is over and now it’s time to pay the piper?
Damn them rich folks for not doing their fair share.
How unpatriotic of them.
” who, like Torno, have spent more than six years in college.”
Six years? I went to college in 2 different states took a half a year off, worked part time, and did my best to wreck my liver in the process, and I completed Mechanical Engineering in 4.5 years, with a 3.7 GPA to boot.
Alright...obscure movie quote...
I’ve been in this high school for seven and a half years...I’m no dummy
I went to college without graduating from high shcool. I loved reading and learning but hated high school. I took an early GED, did well on the SAT, and started college at 17.
please, if you can't make it in SIX years, you never will... feh
From the article
“Students without diplomas or a GED certificate”
what you did was fine. What these “students” are doing is neither.
Didn’t post her major. Probably Gender and Ethnic Studies.
A GED is the equivalent of a H.S. diploma.
Apparently, the students referred to in the article have neither a H.S. diploma nor a GED.
A GED is the equivalent of a H.S. diploma.
Apparently, the students referred to in the article have neither a H.S. diploma nor a GED.
I did—dropped out of High School,and started college-—BUT I was on probation—if got a C or lower, I would have been out! (I worked my butt off and got As) went on to do post grad work. and got degree. I couldn’t do it now.
We have helped several single moms apply for Pell Grants in the 80’s,90’s and they required a HS diploma or GED diploma. When was the requirement removed? Incidentally everyone we helped graduated and is working today - most of them nurses. Pell grants for drop out is a crazy idea!!
Back in my day GEDs were looked down on as less than a HS diploma. Now I would say it’s better, since it shows you at least learned something and wern’t just passed along.
Hey, quit talking about taxpayers, they’ve got plenty already, going to college without graduating is an ENTITLEMENT, dammit. ;’)
tell the scumbags to get a job and pay their own way through school like most of us did.
Clearly, not EVERYONE should be going to college. We’re funding boatloads of sociology and ethnic studies majors who have learned absolutely nothing on our dime.
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