She was LIED to! By her parents! Can you believe that she would castigate her parents in such a manner to make a point? It underlines the underlying aspect to this ‘letter’. She is just another Sandra Fluke...twisting and turning words to emphasize the ‘emotional’ and influence the politics of ‘gimme, gimme, gimme’.
That struck me as vile also. I guess that that there was no chance that her parents were misinformed, or that college costs have spiraled wildly out of control.
I only hope that the author just chose her words poorly, and doesn't really think her parents deliberately lied to her.