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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I paid for our own college.  I think it is a great experience to not be handed everything.  Student loans are not the end of the world.  They are part of life. By the time anyone here has children going to college, all that will be available is student loans - they don't go handing out money because you cry poor mouth.  That is not the way it works.

I have a friend from a large family that did not qualify for financial aid. The parents paid for just one child to go to school.  That child flunked out in his last year of undergrad.  It was a gamble that did not pay off.

You are doing your child no favors by sacrificing everything to send them to private school while they are young or undergrad when they are older, for that matter.  The elite colleges accept a small percentage of applicants - and the applicant pool is rising and improving every day.  It sounds to me that too many here don't have a grasp on reality.

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I can't even follow your post.  You make no sense.  Of course the student loans are not the end of the world. If a child really wants to attend college and the parents can't afford it, student loans are available and can be utilized.  Of course there can be buckets of examples about how the kids flunked out and didn't appreciate, or how paying your own way though has somehow made you 100 times stronger (which i seriously doubt). [b] The point is, you either value education as a family or you don't.  [/b]If you do, you help your kids achieve their absolute potential by supporting them in every possible way.  If you don't value education, you make a 100 excuses as to why paying for a new kitchen, a better can or a trip to Hawaii has somehow made little Johnny a better man.[/quote]

That cannot be the point, because there is a scale here from not giving a crap about education to throwing oneself under a train to help pay tuition. Within that range there are many different reasonable trade-offs that can be made. Everyone here, I believe, values education to a significant extent. But not everyone is going to sacrifice their vacations and cars for the next 20 years so that their children can go to whatever college they please at no cost for themselves.[/quote]

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