please, if you can't make it in SIX years, you never will... fehI knew of so many students who took their Pell Grants and paid for furniture, cars or other luxuries once they got that money while I worked two jobs to pay for my college and drove an old car with hand me down furniture.
Stop the fricking gravy train. I have absolutely no sympathy.
Guess she’ll just have to work her way through college like I did.
Uhm ,you mean the free ride is over and now it’s time to pay the piper?
Damn them rich folks for not doing their fair share.
How unpatriotic of them.
I went to college without graduating from high shcool. I loved reading and learning but hated high school. I took an early GED, did well on the SAT, and started college at 17.
please, if you can't make it in SIX years, you never will... feh We have helped several single moms apply for Pell Grants in the 80’s,90’s and they required a HS diploma or GED diploma. When was the requirement removed? Incidentally everyone we helped graduated and is working today - most of them nurses. Pell grants for drop out is a crazy idea!!
tell the scumbags to get a job and pay their own way through school like most of us did.
Clearly, not EVERYONE should be going to college. We’re funding boatloads of sociology and ethnic studies majors who have learned absolutely nothing on our dime.
If these were tied to merit as well as need I’d say it’s a shame. Doesn’t sound as if merit has anything to do with it though.
Generally speaking, though, this is how the left funds its Sandra Flukes.
“You should be able to get a bachelor’s degree in six years, honestly,” said Torno, who received a letter last month from the U.S. Department of Education alerting her that she would lose the $5,550-a-year scholarships. “But there should be hardship exceptions. People have families.”
Torno also has borrowed the maximum allowable $46,000 in federal loans,
meaning her only remaining aid option could be private loans with higher interest rates. But even that is uncertain.
“My credit’s too bad from not having a job,” said Torno, who has been balancing child care and school by taking online courses. “I’m going to have to stop going to school.”
She’s already gone to college the equivalent of six full years and still hasn’t earned a degree.
If she wants to go for the rest of her life, fine. Loans are still available; it’s just the freeby grants that are being modestly cut.
This woman was laid off in 2008. That’s almost 4 years ago. So, as a mother of four, she obviously has been getting welfare, medical assistance, and food stamps, along with the Pell Grant and whatever unemployment checks she received that were given to her, for however long. Thus, a lot of government/taxpayers’ money has already helped her along. She is studying for a degree in business...but, after six years of college she is still not able to get a degree? She must not be too bright, so how will she be an asset to any company if she hasn’t even been able to manage her own situation better? If this woman is typical, no wonder we are going broke!
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