Posted on 09/15/2009 1:32:40 PM PDT by Steelfish
Mom Panhandles For Son's Tuition
Moms will do anything for their children--even stand at freeway on-ramps to beg for money to pay for their children's school tuition. That's what one mother in Bellevue, Wash., is doing.
Shelle Curley's 17-year-old son, D.J. Strong, has the chance to do his senior year of high school at the prestigious Idyllwild Arts School in California. Strong is a talented dancer and received a $45,000 scholarship, but his recently laid-off, single mom was still thousands of dollars short. Tuition costs $53,000 a year.
[Pic in URL]D.J. Strong on the left.
Strong told Momlogic.com that she tried applying for jobs, selling candy, and washing cars as well as applying for loans. But she wasn't making money fast enough and since she's applying for high school tuition, not college, she wasn't able to secure a loan. Curley's daughter jokingly suggested that her mom beg, but Curley took the suggestion seriously. What else could she do?
Curley has been making about $45 an hour on some ramps but she says it gets competitive and homeless people often try to kick her off the most profitable spots.
So far she has raised the first deposit of $1,433, as well as $511 for gas and lodging so she can drive down to the school for parent's weekend. The next payment is due November 1, but she hopes to find a job before then.
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I never understood why you have to go to college to learn how to dance?
I recently joked with Hubby that if he doesn’t find a job soon, I was going to put him on a streetcorner panhandling for the mortgage payment, LOL!
Uhhh....when you are white you do.
Dude, pay your own way and don’t depend on mom. If fact, you should be paying your own way and HELPING out mom. That what millions of other people do.
Another Michael Jackson wannabee?
I’d pitch in for a real school.
But dance?
If that’s what she wants to do, more power to her.
$53000 for one student for one year?
WTF?
That means 10 students produce revenue over a half-million dollars for one year.
Let’s guess at $100,000 for a studio for a year, another $100,000 for a teacher, and there’s still a third of a million left.
From above ... WTF?
LOL.
Well played, Sir.
Look at how far the ballerina Rahm Emanuel has gone!
Photos show that the mother is white - photo of dancer is of a young AA man.
He surely is sacrificing a lot to learn to dance. No wonder he doesn’t have time to find a job. $53,000 does seem like a lot of money for dancing lessons. Do you suppose he is taking any other courses - i.e. make-up, wardrobe, music?
Interesting.
Open a dancing school and charge $53,000 a year.
It worked for Forrest Gump's mother.
If she really thinks %53,000 a year is worth it, she can prove it on her back.
People are stupid.
Stupid is as stupid does.
This costs more than one year at Harvard Grad School!
Maybe his daddy can help?
Anybody seen him?
Art school for dancing?
That sounds like TAXABLE income to me.
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