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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here - sorry about your childhood but what does this have to with OP? [/quote]

It is pertinent because I was once that lost daughter, scarred by my parents' divorce, and struggling emotionally and academically through my high school years.  I believe that OP should be asking her herself not "why should I send my step daughter to the good college", but instead be asking herself, "how [b]can I possibly help my stepdaughter navigate these emotional and academic difficulties, so that she can turn her life around, succeed at school, get into that good college, and thrive there?[/b]".  That is what a good mother would do.  I know because my mother and my teachers did that for me. [/quote]

But you forget the two most important things.

A) 4 year colleges are not for everyone

B)  Degrees from expensive, no name colleges do not necessarily translate into the end goal, a productive job.[/quote]
And you keep ignoring that UMBC or JMU or jr college-to-university may be hell-on-earth for a kid like this to try to navigate -- almost guaranteeing her failure.  [/quote]

Can you explain "navigate?"  Like it will be hard for her to understand you go to class, do homework and study?  WTF is navigate?[/quote]

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