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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly don't know what I want for my children. I went to an ivy and medical school and for me -- someone who was raised in a trailer park in Nebraska -- it was life changing, but incredibly stressful because that was.my.one.shot.

My kids have easier lives than mine. Or my husband's (who also grew up poor, but went to a good college and grad school which led to his high paying career). They have a higher margin of error than I did. I couldn't make a mistake. They can. They have something I never did, which is the means to be supported. If I would have flunked out or burned out, I knew my future. Waiting tables, working at a gas station, other low paying jobs that my family (the ones who weren't drug addicted or abusing alcohol) went to on a daily basis.[/quote]

Or gone to a community college for a few years, transferred to a local 4 year college, and still ended up averagely middle class. I honestly do not understand the mindset of so many of these posters who seem to think the only possible outcome are an ivy + med school, or working at a gas station. [/quote]

In my situation, it would have been. I lived in a rural town with few opportunities. And I have to stress the poverty. We were so, so poor, PP. It's hard to explain to people here because there are more opportunities and resources, but I was raised in a very, very poverty stricken region. The closest CC was 150 miles away. I was seriously cash strapped (I lived in scholarships and student loans. There were many years I didn't go home for Christmas, but had to hustle an invite to a friend's because I couldn't afford the tickets). I absolutely knew that college was a lottery ticket for me out of generations of poverty. If it wasn't college, I would have been working menial jobs like everyone trying to keep the lights on and gas in the car. [/quote]

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