Would you have had kids if you couldn't
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| Wed, 09-03-2003 - 3:31pm |
I guess I'm still astounded at the attitude that surfaced at another thread implying that if they couldn't pay for college, they wouldn't have had children. Of course, I'm a lazy, selfish mom at home who isn't working while some of my kids are in school so maybe my opinion doesn't count. Maybe I SHOULD take up scrapbooking to make my existence more worthwhile! lol
In any case, it is an interesting question considering that, under that reasoning, Oprah Winfrey shouldn't have been born. Give me time and I can come up with a whole list of highly successful and respected people who have impacted us in positive ways that wouldn't have been born had their parents decided that because they couldn't pay for college, they wouldn't have children.
How has the college issue influenced your decision to have children, if at all? Do you think it is an important criteria in the decision?
Cindy

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I wonder about whether I could get in nowadays too :-). But I remember that even when I went, the two majors that were severely impacted where engineering and biochemistry. Engineering was even worse than biochem and it did take a perfect 4.0 GPA and great test scores to get in (I knew a couple of people who, even with that, where turned down for Berkeley). But of course, for all its great reputation, the fact is that any other UC campus would have given a very good education as well.
Laura
Now if anyone is interested in an interesting article regarding who enlists in the military and why, rather then this petty witch hunt, there's a timely one in todays New York Times. It's in the "Week in Review" section, page 4. The gist of the article is how in Britain, traditionally the military was made up of the wealthy upper classes, as opposed to in America, where the opposite is true. The article states that the wealthy are virtually non existant in the US military. It goes on to say that things are changing in Britain, as more of the lower classes are looking for options when they don't have the means to go to college, which is the reason they gave for the US military being populated by people from lower socioeconomic groups.
YOUR OWN CITY reports 75% of its residents have an education of college degree or higher. I didn't "claim" it; I quoted your own city's census data as reported BY your own city ON your own city's website. If you have issues with the data, I highly suggest you take it up with your city's chamber of commerce and quit attributing to me that which is claimed as FACT by your own city.
Your city may have 94% of its high school graduates PLAN on attending college, but according to your own city's reported demographics, only 75% of the residents have a degree, leaving the other 25% without a degree.
Piss and moan about it all you want, but it's not MY claim; it's the reported facts by your own city.
Edited 9/7/2003 4:39:47 PM ET by savcal
Edited 9/7/2003 4:41:08 PM ET by savcal
Yup, planning on going to college and going are two different things.
Here's an interesting statistic - for the most recent year stats I could find (2000), 100% of students at my local high school who sought admission to college were accepted. Not bad.
Susan
I don't give a crap about a NYT article that talks about the socioeconomic levels of Britain's military.
You were wrong in your facts and you were wrong in calling me a liar. Admit it.
Susan
I teach in the schools, I see those students and there is no way they could go on to college, even though with lots and lots of one on one help they can graduate from high school.
So if you insist upon continuing your little campaign in some valient effort to prove me wrong, well, go ahead. You're only proving yourself wrong. Our town has one of the highest percentages of students going onto college in the country, period. And that is a fact.
You did lie. You never lived in my town like you insisted you did.
PS. Since you love to dig up facts and figures, let's see the figures where you live. What percentage of graduating seniors go on to college. You want to turn this into some kind of competition? Is that what this is about? You seem to want some kind of one upmanship. Go right ahead, those numbers please, I'll wait.
Edited 9/7/2003 5:55:20 PM ET by islimshady
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