[Yesterday: 3.4 miles; today 3.4 miles]
The Atlantic has an interesting article about how Starbucks is offering to pay for their employees to attend college.
In my family, both of my parents were the first of their family to graduate from college. In my generation, all of us attended college and half got advanced degrees.
So I was expecting my children to go to college too. But the struggle has been more than I was expecting. One of our two is getting close to graduating, maybe next year (yeah!). The other did some college, racked up some student loan debt, and now suffers under the weight of that. It turned out to be not a benefit at all but a ball and chain. If I would have known this outcome I wouldn’t have encouraged her to go.
Both have had to take out loans even though we were able to afford to help them along the way to some degree. And they didn’t go to expensive colleges at all.
I remember my college bill being about $500 per semester. And anything beyond 12 credit hours was the same low price. Books were expensive. But the whole thing really wasn’t that difficult.
My wife went to a private college and she had some loans to pay. We were able to get them knocked out after a few years.
But I expect our student will have $20,000 hanging over his head by the time he is done, maybe more. And the other is still paying for a couple of semesters of the kind of junk classes you get during the first two years of school. It is discouraging.
Anyway, I hope you read the Atlantic article.
The company I work for provides some tuition reimbursement. That is a pretty good perk!