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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This town wasn't always an expensive manhattan bedroom community. It was once a rural, sleepy little town where real estate could've been purchased for a song. I imagine there are many, many residents who have lived here for many years, before it took a lot of success to purchase property here. I'm sure those are the residents who make up the bulk of that 25%.
Most students who go away to college don't come back. It's a small town, kids like to go out to the cities for the most part. If they do come back it's when they are ready to start a family. Why the assumption that people don't move away? Most younger (under 50) people in town are not natives. Everyone I know in my age group moved here from elsewhere, most from Manhattan.
But I'm sure you'll disagree with me, it's the fashionable thing to do. Have fun.
You said that 99% or more of the graduating class in your high school went to college - no qualifiers.
I think it's a bit...odd...to call someone a liar simply because you interpreted her words in a certain way, while at the same time claiming you were telling the truth when your words didn't leave any room open for interpretation.
Edited 9/7/2003 5:58:09 PM ET by taylormomma
Susan
Like I said, a higher % goes on to college than anywhere else, so a person can hardly base their opinion of whether I'm full of it on the fact that the percentage is different in THEIR town. In fact, if I have time, I'll look at Trumbull and see if I can find out their percentages to show just how very different the educational climate is there.
I guess that's a statistic Susan didn't want to take the time to look up. Big surprise.
Susan
Yeah Susan, maybe a couple of kids enlisted in the military from my town. That doesn't mean that my children, who are academically inclined, very bright, and who assume are heading for college, are going to buck all the odds and enlist.
The chances are very, very low.
I recognize that the statistic goes up each year. So what? I never said it didn't. YOu said NO ONE from your HS ever went on to the military. That's just plain not true.
Susan
Susan
Anyhow, Trumbull played Weston? Weston h.s is tiny, how did we play your teams? Has Trumbull recently burgeoned in size? What's the population of Trumbull? I'm not quite sure how the teams could have been in the same conference, but if you say so, I'm not going to argue with you. I wasn't in the area at that time.
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