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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't in the situation the OP talks about.  I am a teacher myself and graduated debt free (my parents paid a third, I paid a third, I got the other third in scholarships).  I know I am privileged to have had any parent help.  But, I also attended a school that those three things could pay for.  200K debt to be a teacher?  Hell no.

If the situation was that I was marrying someone who came from poverty, and needed to take out massive loans because they had no family help, had to take out loans to be able to feed themselves while in school, were supporting family or something....that'd be different, maybe.  Or if the person went to school for some extremely high paying field.  But a lower paying one?  Has she gotten a second job to help pay off her loans early?  Has she been extremely, extremely frugal (ie, living at home with parents, biking to work, only shopping at Aldi, not ever going out to eat) in order to pay off her debt early?  Then maybe.

There are colleges out there for lower paying fields where you can graduate with less debt.  For me, I'd worry about this persons ability to make good decisions.  I get making bad ones, I've made many myself, but 200K in debt to go into teaching???????[/quote]

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