<p>It is all about choices and money - an explosive combination during this recession.</p>
<p>People who value academic excellence accept that it is expensive. Some have planned for and saved for it; others foolishly go into debt for it.</p>
<p>People who want a degree for the least amount of money see things differently. </p>
<p>In between these two extremes are most of us.</p>
<p>People make their choices, then seek to justify their choices to others. One family struggles for years to save enough to send all the kids to topnotch schools; another family saves nothing and assumes the kids will work it out.</p>
<p>There’s no point in arguing. We buy different houses, cars, vacations; why not have different attitudes about education? Maybe because we are fearful for our kids?</p>