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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s face it. Everyone who pays for their (grand)child’s college education is complicit. Few of my friend’s had parental help and we graduated from Top 20 schools. We paid with summer jobs, small jobs during during the school year (8-10h/wk), scholarships, and student loans. My mom took out a $2k loan my first year, which I paid back within a couple years after starting work. Sure, I got a small care package every semester with some snacks but the rest was on me. I am proud in having paid my own way. Ditto many friends. We also paid for our own weddings and houses. Grown kids now don’t even pay for their own phones, some are still taking money from their parents.

If we really want to make college affordable, parents need to stop paying.

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This is a dumb take.  Rich kids have always had their parents pay for college.  Same with UMC.  Also same with middle class until the 90s/00s when the cost went crazy.  In fact until then there never was a time when anyone other than lower middle class and poor parents did not pay (except for the ahole parents who could pay but did not).  My dad paid his own way through college and law school 50 years ago.  Was he proud that he could do it?   Yes.  But he thought the process was a waste of time that could have been spent learning and growing.  The experiences his rich friends had were different and in his view much better than his.  One of the things that drove him to have the money not to have his kids do that.

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