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128shot said:you brought up the idea of "I'll throw a whole lot of money at my childs education because I think it'll work " vs "This is all we can afford, ok?"
The Money buys success theme....
total excuse. Education, if you are searching to learn and not expecting it to come to you, is almost free, or relatively inexpensive if you just want to learn.
Librarys, parentals, talk to you teachers about after school classes etc etc etc.
its the information age, lets use it.
Unless I totally misintrepeted the different between Bob and Tim....
I am not talking about that, I am saying both Bob and Tim have the same learning capacity and desire to learn. Education is free, but you can get a much better/easier education the more money you have. For example, SAT scores are pretty important to college. Princeton Review and Kaplan classes are about $200 and up, I was going to take one, but decided I didn't need it that much, I had a pretty good 'natural' score. Everyone I knew who took the class increased their score by 100 or more. Same goes with private tutors etc. Also, the richer student does not have to do as well in high school, b/c they don't need a full or substantially large scholarship to pay for college. You can get an average to good education if you don't have a lot of money, but you can get a much more than average education if you can pay for it, so relatively, education for poorer students is not that great when compared to what you can get with money.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf
• In 2004, 37.0 million people were
in poverty, up 1.1 million from
2003.
Do yall honestly believe that 37 million people live in poverty because they don't have ambition? Some are lazy, some are foolish, and some got dealt **** for life.