My goal is to have my son on the other side of that desk asking those questions of potential hires. That's the whole point.
Every child I know who was not urged toward college for most of his life, didn't attend. That includes the kids who want to go, but have had parents telling them all along that they better have the ability to get scholarships because they aren't going to help pay for school. Even if we couldn't have helped our daughter, we would have said we would do whatever it took for her to get through school. It is just too important today to have that piece of paper.
Perhaps your child will beat the odds, but I'm not willing to gamble with the future of my children.