Posted on 12/12/2021 9:47:27 AM PST by bgill
The priority deadline for Texas students to complete the Free Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA) is on January 15. Texas high school students are required to submit that application to graduate...
“It was a great struggle filling out the FAFSA,” Martinez said.
Millions of students face the same struggle of filling out the FAFSA. Some say that the application is too complicated for some. Congressman Doggett has been working for years to make it simple.
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2) Any student whining that it's too hard to fill out shouldn't be qualified for college.
If you’re too stupid to fill out the application maybe college isn’t for you.
Preparing them to fill out their federal tax returns.
Is this supposed to be the new SAT?
“Last semester I couldn’t even spell high school graduate. Now I is one.”
The kids are told to fill it out, but it is really the parents that do it. This is one of those “your kids are adults now” crap. With both my girls, the colleges would send the tuition bill to them through some account that they have to set up. Once they actually shared the access to whatever it is, I had to beat the ex to it because she would F*&# it up and I’d spend a couple hours on the phone trying to get it corrected. It would have been much easier to just send me the bill.
What kind of nonsense is this? It is a REQUIREMENT to fill out an application for aid to graduate High School, even if you don’t want it?
Included in the mandatory application is your parents social security numbers and income tax information??
Confident my father would have told me to get a GED because no way that form is getting filled out - and I would absolutely agree. Same thing I would tell any child of mine in that situation.
1. List all your income and assets, including bank accounts, passwords, ATM PINS, mother’s maiden name, SSN, etc.
2. Are you fully vaccinated?
3. Do you agree that Joe Biden legitimately won the election, freely and fairly?
4. Do you support Critical Race Theory and its teaching in all schools, including private and parochial schools?
There. Simplified.
I worked my ass off in college all year around to not have a college loan.
One summer - working at a cannery in Alaska - my longest ‘clocked in’ hours were 121 1/2 hours. We HAD to clock out for 1/2 hour every breakfast, lunch and dinner...(that’s 10 1/2 hours in a week).
Take 168 hours (24 x 7) minus 121 1/2 and minus 10 1/2 hours = 36 hours for rest, washing and walking to/from the cannery...It was a tough week about 3 hours hours of sleep a day.
That summer paid for a year of college.
Apparently, many are struggling with the fill in the blank format for “Name”, “Address”, and “Sex”, rather than multiple choice.
They MAKE them apply for loans or they don’t get a diploma? How is that even legal?? Get Dave Ramsey on the line!!
You might want to rethink that comment. Remember it is a govt form, so it is very intrusive, complicated and requires a lot of the parents' information, e.g. complete financial status, sources of income, SSN, etc... . My wife filled out our kids' forms and she spent hours, cursing the whole way. She does our taxes (many forms due to multiple different sources of income and investments), so she is not new to bureaucratic forms.
Due to the information required, I do not think a kid could fill out the form, much less correctly.
And the bottom line is that it’s none of their business unless you wish to get a loan. This is unconscionable as a high school graduation requirement. About like taxing you on the act of not buying health insurance. I’m embarrassed for Texas.
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FAFSA is a requirement for student aid.
If you are middle class and white, your kids are not getting aid.
FAFSA forms are nightmare. It’s the government, they can’t make forms easy.
Yeah, how did that crazy requirement get passed in TX? Did Abbott sign a bill that made that requirement?
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