Reply to Sister's husband has $0 in college fund for my nephews

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Sister's husband has $0 in college fund for my nephews - tells me to "back off""

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[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.

- They can get into college but [b]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]

If you are worried that you will be flushing money, then stay out of it. Let them borrow boat-loads of money, and if they manage to get through college (by some miracle, in your estimation), you can then offer to help pay off loans. Of course, if they can't manage to get through, they will be sunk by their debt, but them's the breaks.

Or let them go to community college and cross your fingers that all works out.

You can't have it the way you want it, OP. They aren't your kids. So, as PP wrote above, you can play the hand you are dealt, or you can decide that they aren't worth investing in and you can fold.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics