<p>State schools aren’t subsidized by very much. Students in our state are paying approx 75% of costs, ( much increased from even ten years ago.)
I don’t know how else to say I didn’t expect anyone else to pay our kids school expenses, if people think that is somehow an insult.
I had attended community college for a very short time after my father died,and I didn’t know about stafford loans, let alone Pell grants. I was receiving social security when attending school full time, but that didn’t pay for my living expenses and tuition, so I dropped out to work full time.
By the time our oldest was thinking about colleges, i had heard about education loans, and figured with that,and some savings bonds,we could cover the cost of the instate school.
It was only after that school didn’t seem to be quite what she was looking for,and she took a gap year,that my neighbor mentioned that the private college he had attended gave grants that paid most of the college expenses. I had never heard that before.
She decided to apply,but not ED just in case it was still too expensive.</p>