The child needs some skin in the game. As the Bible says (roughly), “where your money is, so your heart is also.” If the kids heart is not into college, best find out early by seeing him/her refuse to put up at least partial payment from their own account.
One of obama’s sons asked Rudy when he was mayor, “How am I supposed to pay for college?”
He said “Get a job”
Why does a person attend college and get a degree in the first place? To learn what they need to obtain a degree and secure a job so they can earn a living in the future. Who's going to be benefit financially if they earn the degree? That's who should pay for it. Was it that hard to figure out?
I paid most of mine and graduated with $7.49 to my name.
I’ve got two in college right now. We’re helping with loans as we can. That’s it. Skin in the game.
Depends on the situation and the child.
Even the parents in the story were willing to pay for a specific college
Yes. Next question.
You value things at precisely what they cost you, personally.
Period.
In the 1980’s I attended my state’s flagship university and at that time tuition and fees were $400.00 for a 15 credit hour semester and rent $150.00 per month.
Today, my son attends the same school, The cost is $5,000.00 for a semester and rent is $1,200.00 per month.
As a student in the 1980’s I could work and finance my entire undergraduate degree.
Today, it would be impossible for a student to work his way through college.
Once a someone is 18 they are no longer a child (no matter what liberals would have you think).
If parents want to gift them with college, great.
But it should NEVER have been a legal onus on the parents to provide it.
How can you keep parents from paying for college? Money is fungible, and you can give your money to whoever you want. Which makes it a pointless question.
I don’t care who pays for it as long as it isn’t me and my tax dollars.
“I was a 17-year-old who fantasized about a very specific type of college experience.”
Get a grip. I fantasized about lots of things when I was 17 but that doesn’t mean I was being realistic.
This is a personal decision made by parents. There is no general rule which should h
Guide every family
Children are being taught in school that their parents owe them a college education. Some are even being told that their parents are LEGALLY required to pay for their college. Then they confront their parents with this newly acquired information.
Yes, they should have to pay-the real issue to me isn’t whether the parents or the student pays, but that the student gets a job and works-possibly for the 1st time in his/her life-if someone has never held a job, all the degrees they can afford will not make them a person able to hold a job and be responsible for themselves.
My husband worked to pay for college, too-but in the early 70’s there were more students who worked-those who did not were from well-off families-not working class ones like ours. Not everyone needs to go to college, either-my husband and I both preferred to do blue collar work, like we did before we had a degree-I returned to blue collar work in 2003, and I’m very happy wasting that education that I paid for...
I paid for college by working as a cocktail waitress-I’d had after school and summer jobs when I was in HS, but having to pay my tuition definitely taught me adult responsibility-so I made my cub do it, too-no regrets...
I really think that students not paying for at least part of their higher education is a big part of the reason we have all these melting snowflakes now that can’t keep a job more than a couple of months...
The government has no Constitutional business granting money to students for scholarships or loans. A private entity can Constitutionally give scholarships and loans for any reason at all.
Pudlo’s economic law on costs: in any economic system, costs will rise with the willingness of people to pour money into the system.
and when government gets involved, it quickly prices people out of the market.
if you want to expand the system, hype it to the people and make them crave it at any cost.
works with transportation, health are, education and every other economic system.
Gee, Other than the rare ‘Dougie Howser’ types, I thought ‘children’ didn’t go to college.
But then given how emotionally childish these supposed ‘young adult’ snowflakes have become, I guess the term is applicable afterall.