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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  They did not ask to be born. We wanted a family and so we had kids.  If we could not have afforded basics - and college education is basic - we would not have had them.[/quote]
 
College education is not basic. The vast majority of families in this country cannot afford to pay for college outright - that's why people are loaded to their eyeballs in school loan debt. Higher education for the sake of education is, and has always been, a luxury of the rich. For the rest of the population it's a means to employability, and an incredibly expensive investment . You do your kids a disfavor by allowing them to believe college is basic.[/quote]

The PP didn't say that a loan-free college education was a basic; s/he said that a college education was a basic. Given the fact that 40% of 18-24 year olds were in college in 2014, and that number has consistently risen year after year, the facts on the ground disagree with you. [/quote]

By your own facts, the majority of young adults in this country (60%) DO NOT attend college. And of those who do, most are loaded in debt. I understand, that in a forum where many making $350K think they are middle class, college is basic, but the facts on the grounds say otherwise. Being given the opportunity to attend college, without having to shoulder any of the financial burden (as OP planning to do), is like winning a lottery ticket. Nothing basic about that. [/quote]

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