More crazy nutty student debt...

[dfrecore]

When she had a bachelor's degree, why did she need to go get a masters? High school teachers don't need a master's degree to work. And then to get a PhD? What was the point of all of that? Then there's the part where she took out loans to pay for daycare for her kids? I'm sorry, but that's not borrowing for tuition, that's borrowing to pay for a lifestyle you can't afford. She could have gotten a job, and paid for daycare until her kids were old enough to be in school, in which case there would not have been any daycare costs! Oh yeah, and then 25 years of not paying on a debt. There was just one bad decision on top of another, for 25 years. It's all just insanity.

And for anyone who talks about people in poverty not being able to afford college - anyone in poverty qualifies for pell grants. I have a nephew who went to school for free. Not a dime in student loans. And I wouldn't consider them "poverty" but the government does, so he gets to go to school for free. You can't tell me that the poorest kids have to take out student loans. I know WAY more kids who are taking out loans to go to private college or UC instead of CSU (University of CA instead of Cal State schools where the cost is 2x as much), or who want to live in the dorms or an apartment 15 minutes away from their parents house, than "poor" kids who go to the local cc and then go to CSU and live at home. The ones I know with the most debt are paying for lifestyle, not tuition.