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Originally posted by XOMichelle
It's very unlikely for any kid at 18 (unless they have a trust fund) to have the money to pay for college themselves while they are attending school full-time. While it isn't anyone's duty to pay for school, I think parents that don't help their kids out the best they can are putting their kids at a disadvantage, and I don't think that's right. My uncle refused to pay for some of my cousin's college, and because you can't "refuse" according to the federal government, she didn't get any need-based scholarships. I fully intend to support my children thought college, including GLO dues, new clothes once and again, books and food.
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Not to jump down on you or anything, but your logic that "parents who don't help their kids out the best they can are putting their kids at a disadvantage" is a complete inaccurate. IMPO.
I come from a middle to upper class family, but my parents IN NO WAY could afford to pay for my college expenses (now if they had had the money they would have paid for it, that was their dream to pay for my college but they couldn't).
So there are these wonderful things called student loans that I had to get. In my eyes, I worked harder than some of my sisters who had mommy and daddy paying for everything. All they had to do was pick up the phone say "I need more money" and they would get it. Some of them never held jobs in high school, let alone college. They really didn't know how to "earn" their own money. I worked through high school and college to pay for the things I needed. I learned TONS about saving money and whatnot.
As for the sorority, again it was all on me. I CHOSE to join a sorority. It wasn't a NECESSITY. Plus, my parents didn't even want me to join, they were completely anti-Greek then.
So am I at a disadvantage because my parents didn't pay for my college? No, I'm not. In fact I think I'm at an advantage compared to some (not all) who have mommy and daddy paying for everything. IMPO it gives the child a disadvantage having their parents pay for everything, how will anyone really "learn" anything when everything is handed to you on a silver platter. (Now this is just my opinion and I am speaking strictly from personal experience with some of my sisters and friends from college, this is not to say that EVERYONE whose parents pay for stuff behaves this way).
As for the topic at hand I personally don't feel it is for a state to "order" a parent to pay for their child's GLO dues and fees. That child CHOSE to join so in essense the parents SHOULD CHOOSE whether they want to pay or not. They should pay for tuition and living expenses. Forcing parents to pay for their childs "extracurricular" activities is a whole other issue.
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