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Originally posted by tonypeoni
I'm gonna get lambasted for this but I think parents should pay as much as possible. Kids today not only face huge college loans/unstable job market couple that with sky high housing costs and college debt is just one more financial burden they don't need.
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Wayne talked about this a few months past. I agree, I'm saving for my 4 kids....but.....this has to do with how the child/teenager/adult deals with responsibility and maturity. My oldest daughter is smart as she wants to be, but all the distractions of high school (dating, sports, friendships) have been taking there tolls on her grades. It seems my only recourse is to tell her that at this rate her plans of going south and heading to a good school and quickly being replaced by her biking to the local community college. Some kids just don't deserve the amount it takes to spend for schooling. My son is younger but the complete opposite. I would see no problem sending him to an Ivy league school. If you have the bucks, spend how ever you want. I can't see, however, sacrificing the normal things in life (vacations, living in the home you need) all in what "might" be needed in the future.