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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
A partner of mine has now sent 4 kids through St. Olaf, a private college in northern Minnesota, at the low low cost of just over $50K/yr.
Dude's spent just a tick shy of a million friggen dollars on goddamn liberal arts degrees from a college that nobody outside of northern Minnesota gives a shit about. His kids all had full rides from Truman State but he footed that bill anyway. So in essence, he set about 10 years worth of take-home income on fire. Can you imagine that? The guy's going to have a 30 year career and 10 years of it just up and vanished.
It is the single most absurd thing I've ever heard. How the hell can you even begin to teach your children about responsible decisionmaking when you let them do that? Now 2 of them are still 'finding themselves' and one of them is a paramedic...y'know, that thing you can do with a 1 yr certification course.
These decisions are hard but at the same time, some parents are enabling their children to make pretty staggeringly stupid ones.
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Crazy.
At least my kids are both going into engineering fields at state schools and have been able to get some scholarships but it is still bloomin' expensive.