Should parents pay for kids college?

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You always hear about parents putting money away for children for when they grow up. This money is so the kid will be able to go to college. Now as logical as this sounds a lot of parents dont do this and a lot of people dont even think about doing this.

The idea is something they would have never thought of. So a lot of kids are either going to have to get a job out of high school or else pay for college themselves. If you dont come from a poor poor family you are not getting much. Whats worse about this is even when its been established the parents cant or wont pay this does not affect how much money the student makes for school since it still counts as though mom and dad are chipping in.

Now getting a job out of high-school right now is impossible if you do not have help. Whats even worse is a lot of high-schools and parents actively discourage students from working while in high-school. Despite the fact this would help the students later on when they need the jobs. The misconception is that if you work after school in high-school that you are going to drop out. Despite the fact a lot of people need a part time job just to pay for college. So why not get your foot in the door early that way when you come to college you already have a job, no worries!

A lot of things force parents to help the kid into college. Things like cosigning leases is another way to trick parents into helping but by law at 18 you can kick them out. None of this seems to really correlate does it? So should parents be expected to open up a savings fund for their kids college and if not shouldn't we just count everyone over 18 as LOW INCOME INDEPENDENT?

Why do we set people up for failure? Its not doing anything for the economy.

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  • Arm0se
    9 years ago

    Parents should at least try. It's hard to go to collage to learn how to get a job when you don't have a job to pay for it in the first place. Plus, if they end up not going to collage, you can just shove all that money in your retirement fund.

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  • GiveMeAFuckingNameAlready!
    9 years ago

    You could write for a grant through a corporation. Pepsi, Coca Cola, Johnson and Johnson all have some type of way of "giving back" to the community. Or, join the military. You wont be attending Yale by any means. However, it's an education none the less.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    9 years ago

    a frenda mine paid to put all 4 of his kids thru college

    his deal were that hed pay the full ride for all the kids and they can go out into the world debt free with a degree

    and theys also no longer welcome to live at his house

    no fuckin boomerang kids no way

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  • Disipline
    9 years ago

    Never !! That's the kids problem. They are adults at 18 and need to start acting like one. I don't want a kid that cannot survive in the world while I am gone one day. I would rather have him do it while I am there to help him with a place to live rent free or etc... just not paying for his school. Sometimes if you pay for their school they don't really care about failing cause it's your money. When it's their money they tend to realize the value of money much more.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      Most full time students do not have money, They are students. They have to beg from some rich stranger or they need mom and dad to help them. Fasfa and colleges also sees it as an obligation to help cosign or pay for child tuition at 18 if they do not make enough money themselves. So even if your child attempts to sign up for school on their own they are always going to request parents aid.

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  • yesnomaybeso
    9 years ago

    If they can, of course. I will pay for mine. I wanna pay for mine. When I have kids, I will want the best for them....

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    if they can yes if they cant love and encouragement go a long way

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  • thegypsysailor
    9 years ago

    I paid a cash sum at birth and never had to worry again; college was paid for, period. I believe it was around 8 grand and paid out a bit over 225.
    I used to think it was the parent's responsibility to put their kids through college. For many years there have been programs where if the parents put a little money down in grammar school and paid a modest monthly payment, at 18 college was paid for. Every parent could afford that.
    But with college costing 6 figures or so and the very real possibility that a college education does not guaranty a decent job, I see less reason for parents to bother. Too many students choose a party school anyway, which I do not see as a parent's responsibility at all.
    The really motivated students can get scholarships and the rest can go to junior college as a stepping stone to more education.
    If someone truly wants an education, they can have one. It's just a question if it's worth the hard work and the cost.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago

      I think they should probably cap it. Like make a law colleges cant cost over so much, charge so much or is only allowed so much funding. There is some great colleges but they seem to have way more than they need and seem to just jack up the price out of a students necessity.

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      • pixie44
        9 years ago

        Yea college is expensive as fuck. And don't get me started on those dumb ass books.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          9 years ago

          I honestly dont see the purpose in having these regulated text books. You could could get the same material for 10-20$ at the book store but for the college/high-school textbook its 75-over 200$. Why not just assign cheaper books or just tell the students what they need to study? Is it really that hard?

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          • Shrunk
            9 years ago

            You can find a lot of them as PDFs online for free, provided the class doesn't do that bullshit where they make you buy the special edition that changes every year so you can't rent, buy used or sell it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. One class I had to buy a 2000-something page LOOSE LEAF (what the fuck?!) biology textbook that's now just taking up way too much space on my bookshelf

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          • howaminotmyself
            9 years ago

            Cheaper books don't exist. Part of what makes them expensive is the amount of information in the book. Now some books are a rip off and schools may promote a specific author for shady reasons, but a science book is going to be more expensive than a lit book. And of course some books have constant new editions that make it difficult to buy the cheaper ones, but not all schools do this. I know they tried to regulate it at a school near me but politics are politics and it didnt quite happen.

            As for parents paying for school, it's a nice idea but not feasible. My sister in law is choosing a retirement fund over school for her kids because they can take out loans for that. There are no loans for retirement.

            Loans are not a bad way to go, twenty years ago. They are out of control now. But still not impossible if you look around.

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          • thegypsysailor
            9 years ago

            First off, college text books are a very small market. Nothing dictates that the same text book must be used for the same class in different schools. So all the expense of writing and printing these books must be born by only several thousand books sold, instead of several hundred thousand sales for a 'best seller' novel, for instance.
            I thought used text books were available at campus book stores; is that no longer true? There are specialty book selling sites like alibris that have all kinds of books including text books. A little preplanning and all your text books could be in your hands for the first day of class.

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