I listen to Dave Ramsey's podcast a lot and he always makes the claim it's possible to go to school debt free and you should do this even if you have to work 80 hours a week and go part time. He insists since he could do it, even though his grades suffered, everyone should be able too. But he graduated in 1982 and tuition has gone up tremendously since than. Just four years of tuition and room and board at an in-state school could run you north of 100k.
Even with my grandmother contributing 30k to my education from savings bonds over the years and me getting extra grants from being a low income student, I still had 35k in loans after going to an instate school. And I was fairly lucky. I hate to think of the kids who have parents that can't/won't help with school and don't have the resources or access to plan ahead of time. I feel like DR just has unrealistic expectations and is out of touch with current school prices and the real difficulties of poverty. There's more to this than just "pull yourself up by your boot straps". Do you agree with DR on this?
Submitted June 11, 2019 at 07:45PM by catdogthrowaway123 http://bit.ly/2MGSax0
