<p>“I see so many students on this board that have dead beat divorced parents, parents that rather buy Mercedes than to pay for their kids education, parents that refuse to pay because their kids don’t want to major in ___ or go to school ___. Those kids have a lot less options than lower income students.”</p>
<p>I don’t agree. The lower income students who have parents who didn’t go to college and may not even have graduated from high school have fewer options because unlike the kids with educated parents who refuse to pay for their college, the lower income students lacked the exposure to education, educated people, and to being around people who valued education. The well of kids with deadbeat parents are more likely to have also taken a college prep curriculum than are poor kids without educated parents.</p>