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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Way to make her feel like a failure. Any idea how she feels about all of this? Some of the parents in the college forum make me feel sick to my stomach. [/quote] Failure to get any sort of post-high school training is a pretty scary thought these days. It's not like it was in my day, when kids could walk down to the Bethlehem Steel plant in Baltimore at 16 and get a job with health insurance, good pay, and a great retirement. No education necessary. That's over. The average income for someone with high school only is about $21,000. It would be very hard to be self-supporting on that. She doesn't have to go to college. But if she were my kid, I'd encourage her to seek out her talents and get some type of associated skilled training to maximize opportunity. [/quote]
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