Poor(er) kids go to Yale, rich(er) kids go to State U?

[DolorousEdd]

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Are you kidding?</p>

<p>Do you know that poor people buy cigarettes??? Some are spending $50 -100+ per week on cigarettes - especially if more than one adult in the household smokes. I don’t get it, but it happens…a lot.

It was kind of tongue in cheek social commentary; it’s not that they would be unable to buy wine, it’s that the lower/working class prefers beer, while the upper class prefers wine, though both classes have the liquor drinkers. As far as sheer stereotypes go, at least.</p>

[Momofbassist]

<p>As the parent of two kids doing the state school route, I’m very happy not to be paying the higher tuition of a private college! Our community is very diverse economically from million dollar mansions to 40 yr old trailers at the trailer park. Son has many friends going to ivies and top LACS paid by mom and dad, etc. but he also have several friends in the low to no income areas in our community. It really gave my son a dose of reality when he realized he could afford to attend the 4 yr out of town state schools when some of his friends were struggling to find a way to get to community college without a car since there is no bus service. Yes the high achieving child with no income and no assets will get a good aid package but the average to above average student from a low income family stuggles to make it to community college and finds the 4yr out of town state college is still too much of a reach because Pell grants and stafford loans won’t pay for it all.</p>

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<p>The fallacy here, as expressed by many, is thinking that more than a tiny fraction of colleges have aid policies remotely as generous as HYPSM. Of course, the reality is otherwise.</p>

[annasdad]

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Calumet School District 132 requires that parents confirm their addresses every fall and checks them four times during the school year, officials said, while Community High School District 218 in Oak Lawn occasionally posts school security officers at bus stops to see if students arrive from Chicago.</p>

<p>“There’s a part of me that says, ‘God bless those parents who find a way to get their kids to a better school,’” said District 218 Superintendent John Byrne. “I’m not unsympathetic. But it does raise the cost of educating a child here.”</p>

<p>The emotionally entangled issue gained national attention this year when an Akron, Ohio, mother was jailed for nine days after a jury convicted her of tampering with official records to falsely enroll her two daughters in a better, safer school in the district where her father resides.</p>

<p>The case revealed the lengths that some parents take to shield their children from low-performing schools, said Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California at Los Angeles.</p>

<p>“Any parent faced with sending their kid to a dropout factory that is dangerous will try almost anything to change their kid’s future,” Orfield said. “This is a serious educational and moral crisis.”</p>

<p>Although school districts are reacting to a budget crisis and trying to protect their local tax dollars, Orfield said, enforcing residency restrictions often keeps poor and minority students locked into underperforming schools.</p>

<p>“It’s a fact that those who need good schools the most are segregated into the most inferior schools in our country,” he said.

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[notrichenough]

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Yes, bygawd, I’ve earned it, and it’s mine, and the h*** with my kids and their generation. Just because my mommy and daddy pampered and spoiled me doesn’t mean my kids should expect the same thing.

When my generation went to college, you could be full-pay at a private that cost less than 10% of my parents’ (single-earner) income. I paid for close to half of the private school I went to from my summer job earnings.</p>

<p>That same private school today can easily cost 50% or more of a two-earner family’s income. And I haven’t seen any summer jobs paying 25 large.</p>

<p>So to say we were “pampered” is ridiculous. I could tell exactly what my father would have said if I told him I wanted to go to a school that would cost half a year’s pay, but my keyboard would go up in smoke.</p>

[mom2collegekids]

<p>When my generation went to college, you could be full-pay at a private that cost less than 10% of my parents’ (single-earner) income. I paid for close to half of the private school I went to from my summer job earnings.</p>

<p>Yes…</p>

<p>I can tell you this…when my brother started at USC in 1974, the difference between the price of it and the price of a UC was not the price of a nice new car…every year. </p>

<p>Now, the difference between paying 4 years at many state schools and paying 4 years for a pricey private is the cost of at least 4 nice cars.</p>