SAH doesn't support change,

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SAH doesn't support change,
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Sat, 08-26-2006 - 4:58pm

"SAH doesn't support change, it supports going backwards to the 1950's,"

Statement in a post below.

I wholeheartedly disagree. To me, SAH is a choice. How is that going back to the 1950s, when a lot of women didn't have much of a choice.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 6:54pm
Nope, sorry, put me in the snob category but I was reasonably intelligent at age 20.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 6:57pm
You don't need life experience to understand French or calculus.

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Mon, 09-04-2006 - 7:05pm

LOL very true!

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Registered: 03-21-2001
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 7:06pm
Definitely requires help from the spouse.
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Registered: 03-27-2000
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 7:15pm
Where I went to college, a small private college in NYC, it was very rare to take more than four years to graduate.
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Registered: 06-30-2006
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 7:22pm
Doesn't sound like much of a family life, especially with a kid or two.

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Registered: 03-21-2001
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 7:38pm

Well, they were 20, married, in the Army when the stick turned pink (and my friend kept asking his medic buddy to "do the test again").


But it seemed to work well for them.

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Registered: 07-17-2006
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 8:01pm

That's interesting. I thought the same thing about your link above - it doesn't tell the whole story and is misleading.

Anyway. My link from the US Census Bureau was 100% apposite and not misleading. I provided the percentages of those in the US with bachelor degrees. "Some college" may be acceptable in your field of employment. But it doesn't cut it with me, nor did it have anything to do with the topic under debate. Relevant employers are not impressed with someone who said she had "some college." I mean, why bother demonstrating failure to follow thru? Better to keep silent about it if someone had no intention of completing what one started and dropped.

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Registered: 07-17-2006
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 8:06pm

Your link is misleading because it includes within the "time to complete a bachelor's degree", the time one takes off after high school graduation. In other words, the time after high school graduation until one enrolls in college was included within the time to complete a bachelor's degree. It also includes students who "stop out for 6 months or less" without including the low percentage of students who do that. Thus, your link is misleading.

This link is reliable and states what I have always thought - most people finish college within 4 years:

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/vol_5/5_3/4_3.asp




Edited 9/4/2006 8:26 pm ET by tinderbox03
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Mon, 09-04-2006 - 8:09pm
Are you saying that once Punkalicorn gets some worldly experience then she will become pessimistic? How sad.

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