Not a Parent - But Curious

Sue22
Sun, 08 Jan 2017 02:21:33 +0000

^^Yup. In 1980 my state flagship cost less than 9% of what it costs today in tuition and required fees.

project21,
To answer your original question, I’m doing for my kids what my parents did for me-paying for college and leaving grad school up to them to finance.

Why? For one thing, they’re attending schools that cost over $60,000 a year in all. That’s a quarter of a million dollars in debt they’d be carrying if we didn’t help them. It seems terribly unfair for them to be saddled with so much debt because we were saving cash instead of paying for their college expenses.

To me it feels like a real gift for me to be able to pay their way through school. They’ll have plenty of time to eat mac and cheese live off milk crate furniture, but I know too many people still paying off their own student loans while trying to help their kids pay for school for me want them to try to pay their own way through. I also want them to have the freedom to take some detours and explore what they really want to do, not end up in a job they hate but can’t afford to quit at 22 or 23.