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It will be so embarrassing the parents can't keep up the fake appearance they're [i]amazing[/i] parents and he's doing [i]amazing[/i] at college. And the validity of that fake parenting is some worthless $100,000 bachelor's. The future "salesman" doesn't need a degree to go sell cars or be a loan officer. Instead of yanking an obvious mooching manipulating brat out of his multi-year spring break -- maybe waking him up for once or just saving the family a substantial sum of money -- you underwrite it, so mommy and daddy's friends and associates don't know they've raised an unmotivated bum.[/quote]

PP, I say this with good intent: If your post is serious, you should do some self-evaluation as you appear to be a vindictive and bitter person.  If you are trolling, and doing this for "fun", then you are a sick person.[/quote]

There is nothing sick, bitter or vindictive here. I think the PP raises some excellent points that more of us need to think about. Sorry if it hits too close to home for you.[/quote]

PP here: nice try, chief.  It does not "hit close to home" and I don't need to be a pornstar to know a giant asshole when I see one.

[b]"yanking an obvious mooching manipulating brat out of his multi-year spring break".  Yeah, that's not bitter or vindictive.[/b]

If you are not the PP and you are defending him, then you are worse.[/quote]

What is bitter about it? The people on this board are parents. It’s not like we’re sitting around passing a joint high giving the guy whose parents funded the pizza.

Many people are people are about keeping up appearances. For OPs family college doesn’t matter for learning or grades. They must be getting something out of it otherwise why keep paying? The college degree is a kind of American aristocracy, it confers immediate respectability to the young person and accolades to his parents. The degree itself is about as useful as those old world titles, every once in a blue moon someone was impressed, but mostly it serves as weed out mechanism for undesirables.  [/quote]

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