| Again, you're making an assumption: that you could sell your business and immediately get a decent job. From what you've said, I'm assuming you or someone in your family could. But for the sake of argument, say that's not true. Say that all you had was a 25-year-old degree in computer science; the family's in trouble if you ditch the business and hope to make a decent wage with that. Not to mention the fact that as soon as you sold the business, college grant offers would plummet, thus partially nullifying that move :-p
Also, there's this: "I do not expect others to pay for our child's college education because of the choices we've made over the past 30 years."
Following that logic, we might as well just do away with the concept of college aid altogether and make kids pay for their parents choices in the college arena - to an even higher degree than they do now. Thankfully, many colleges today see beyond that dubious plan. |