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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all of you who don't plan to pay for your kids college education, let me assure you that they will be pushed out of jobs by[b] immigrants whose parents lived in shacks so their kids could get the best possible education.  Indian, Korean, Chinese families sacrifice EVERYTHING so their kids can get the best possible education. [/b] Later those same kids help the elderly parents because they are able.  This discussion, right here, on this thread is why the U.S. is going to become second world very soon.  [/quote]

I am one of those immigrants (though I live quite comfortably). I said previously that I would only pay for a top school tuition and only on my own terms (i.e. children get to choose their major only from a pro-approved list created by me and DH).[b] It is hard for me to imagine immigrant parents giving their children free reigns in terms of exploring various college majors etc. [/b]Also, more than many here (and this despite both me and DH being PhDs) we are willing to accept that our children might not be good enough for college and that there other honorable ways to make a living. We are certainly not going to pay $$$ so that children can have a "college experience".[/quote]

I am also from one of those immigrant groups - my parents immigrated, and my husband immigrated. Dad's family was dirt-poor; he's an engineer.

My parents came here for opportunity.  The last thing my parents would want me to do is waste an education on something that didn't interest me at all.  Can you imagine not wanting to be an engineer, and then spending 9 hours a day being an engineer?  Soul sucking.

I don't know a single immigrant parent that made the kinds of ultimatums you suggest - it's the exception, rather than the norm in our community, actually.  We find out about it from the rumor mill.  "Oh, he left school - he really wanted to be an English major, but his mom made him go to the business school."  [/quote]

Thank you pp.  You said everything I wanted to say, but much more nicely.  [/quote]

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