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[quote=Anonymous]Another Midwesterner here who put myself through college and grad school in the 90s. Understanding in our middle-class family was always that you go to college but you pay for it yourself, and I went to a great, solid state school for undergrad where I got through entirely on a mix of scholarships and waitressing income. I did take out about $40K for grad school and went nose to the grindstone for about 8 years to pay that off since my initial salary out of school was about that much in total. Never regretted it and definitely see some entitlement and sloppier work ethic in some of my colleagues whose parents paid for their undergrad/grad school (not all, of course - but it's a certain type of attitude I never see in anyone who paid for their own education).

I expect my kid to pay for at least some of her college education if not all. The slashing of state investment in higher ed over the last couple decades has undoubtedly made it harder for many kids to pay the full cost of tuition - though there are still plenty of great, relatively inexpensive state schools and if DD wants to go to a super-expensive "college of her dreams" with the idea that she'll come out a public school teacher, she's gonna have to figure out how to pay for most of it herself for sure (yeah, I'm looking at you, Martin O'Malley, geez).[/quote]

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