<p>I don’t know where some of these teachers’ reality check are. I guess they think that because you are paying them, that you have the money to blow. I ran into this with a school counselor at a selective independent high school urging my friends’ DD to go to a VP program that cost more than my friend was making that year. She was one step from being out on the streets and they knew it, as the school was accommodating the student with scholarship and places to stay. State flagship which would have been FREE was not good enough. I had some words with that idiot. </p>
<p>But it often does not do any good. Some people look at it as an investment, albeit a poor one with the returns these most often have. I have a performing arts son, and that he has no loans is such a relief. Some of his friends are on jump ahead of the Sallie Mae phone calls after them for the loan payments and some of their parents are in grave situations. This is the reality. There are masters programs thereafter that often have stipends for those who want specific teachers. It’s not a once in a life time chance by any means.</p>