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[quote=Anonymous]Hard as it is for folks on DCUM who are obsessed with getting their kids into $35,000/year private schools and $60,000/year Ivy League colleges, most Americans don't have a college degree.  Given 20+ years of little or no growth in wages for the middle class and shrinking funding for public colleges, paying for college tuition is not an easy call for the typical American family.

I grew up in a very blue collar neighborhood where most of my friends parents were very resistant to paying for college. None of their parents went graduated from college. There was a sharp divide in their minds between "rich college kids" and families like ours.

I had a friend whose parents said they would only pay for college unless he got all A's or aced the SATs, even though he was never that kind of student.  They just could not afford to pay full tuition and didn't want to say so.  While they knew about financial aid, they thought it was like welfare and they did not want to fill out a FAFSA (free application for federal student aid).  I think they were genuinely shocked when I told them where I was going to college and that I got financial aid, not academic scholarships.

OP, I would never question your judgment of your own family and children. But, please help your son consider his options. Fill out a college net price calculator to see how little the schools may expect from you.  Tell him to talk to a college counselor about what kinds of schools he can get into with his GPA and test scores.  Not everyone needs a college tour - many students go to a college without ever visiting. Maybe he decides that enlisting in the military or working a few years is a better choice than college right out of high school. But, let it be his choice. Please don't make a college education something his parents denied him.   [/quote]

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