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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here:

- I didn't say they should cut-off family, but for a working class student to REALLY grow, they need to broaden their horizons, go away to university, see the world, create some distance from home and the various working class distractions.

- [b]They can get into college but I'm not going to flush tens of thousands of dollars down the drain on future drop outs.[/b]

- I -do- give him credit. But getting hostile about family who understands higher education trying to help prepare the boys for college is not credit-worthy.[/quote]

So, I guess there's nothing more to discuss. They aren't going to be prepared in the way you want, so you won't be helping. They won't be broadening their horizons, going away to university (likely they will need to live at home and go to community college unless they take on significant debt), etc. Oh well.[/quote]

Yes, I'll get to see my two layabout nephews every Christmas, slowly but surely turning into their biological father, wasted potential, maintaining those cyclical working class roots that are nearly impossible to disrupt. Yay![/quote]

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