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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I swear I will never understand why people come on these posts clutching their pearls because someone isn't saving hundreds of thousands of dollars for college. There are things called scholarships, you can encourage your children to aim for those. You can also point them to the FAFSA which will enable them to pay for their own education. Help out where you can- pay for room or board, or books, or whatever. I want to give my kids as big a boost as I can, but I'm not forking over $100,000 when they turn 18 years old so they can go drink for four years and never understand what it means to have to pay for your education. MANY people on these boards have student loan debt and do just fine, self included. My children will not suffer some huge mantle of injustice if they have to incur some themselves. [/quote]

AMEN.  I think that's the first time someone else has posted exactly what I'm thinking.  I have loans.  DH has loans.  Our parents both paid a good amount, but we do have loans to repay... and I don't see a problem with that whatsoever.  I'm not saving the $400k that these idiots on these forums claim they're saving (which I find hard to believe) to send my snowflake to college.[/quote]

When did you graduate college, and when will your kids? I'm guessing it's at least a 20-30 year span. You can't compare the way college tuition has gone up. And more and more people are trying to get into state schools for this reason, so your super well rounded, talented, 4.0 and perfect SAT score kids are in no way have a spot locked down.

I read a great article recently on how the burdens of student loans will impact future generations - their ability to move out on their own, go into certain careers, and go to grad school. If you can't afford to save for college, that is one thing, but don't kid yourself into thinking your kids may not be greatly impacted if you are not able to help for college at all.

My parents paid full freight for both my brother and I - we both worked PT all the way through college, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, I missed two classes total in all four years, and we both earned full fellowships for grad school. Paying for college does not equal inability to achieve. I did drink some though :)
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