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To: Kaslin

Go to a cmmunity college while working part-time, then transfer in a year or two to regular college. This works particularly well if you have a kid who isn’t that mature and may spend the first year or two ‘away at college’ partying, not studying. If they prove themselves with good grades, then send them on. Some parents, because community college is much less expensive, have the kids pay for those classes themselves .... amazing how grades improve when it is the kid’s money paying for the class & they are more appreciative of any help the parents do give them.


8 posted on 06/29/2012 8:01:43 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: MissMagnolia
70% of all new jobs went to people over 55 years old.

The young Obama Generation is not looking for jobs or willing to work under job rules.

Plus the cost of hiring a untrained employee is not cost prohibited

10 posted on 06/29/2012 8:05:14 AM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: MissMagnolia
Some parents, because community college is much less expensive, have the kids pay for those classes themselves .... amazing how grades improve when it is the kid’s money paying for the class & they are more appreciative of any help the parents do give them.

In complete agreement.

11 posted on 06/29/2012 8:07:53 AM PDT by rightly_dividing (We are Scott Walker.)
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To: MissMagnolia
Go to a cmmunity college while working part-time, then transfer in a year or two to regular college...

This is exactly what I did, but unfortunately the statistics are against folks who do this, by more than a landslide.

I spoke to a guidance counselor at the private high school where I teach...and according to her, some 80%+ of community college students never go on to attain a 4 year Bachelor's.

Apparently they get caught up in the work-aday adult world--get married or do other things, and suddenly at 30 years old realize that life is OK and they're unmotivated then to finish.

This was the path of my sister actually--although she's an intelligent, capable person, she just never finished college...and in her 60s, has never had a job paying more than about 25K a year. (she's doing OK, and probably wasn't meant for college...but still...)

Knowing that 80% statistic, if I were a parent, I'd think twice about sending a kid to community college while working a dead-end job, as the chances are very high, they may never leave that pattern.

Better to finish college ASAP, than to string it out 5 or 6 years into the mid or late 20s, which is marriage, family & career territory.

Our ancestors by the way, 200+ years ago, typically went to University at 14, 15 or 16 years old. If raised with the right discipline, and actually of academic-minded college-material, they can handle it...

The REAL problem is that people assume that if one is of average of above average intelligence, you MUST go to college--and skilled labor or other skilled jobs are looked down on, and ruled out (and we wonder why jobs are "shipped overseas"), THAT IS THE REAL MISTAKE BEHIND THIS!!!

28 posted on 06/29/2012 9:22:33 AM PDT by AnalogReigns (reality is analog, not digital...)
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