So you're not "well off"..your child may still go to college..

[ironglow]

  If you live in the area of the Ozarks and you are relatively needy, but has a youngster who is not afraid of work, has Christian values and wants to learn..he/she may be able to attend college for free..  http://www.cofo.edu/

[Spirithawk]

The college is just 15 minutes from me. It is an excellent college and very well thought of and highly respected.

[BBF]

It won't be copied nationwide since it involves the word  WORK rather than BORROW or GRANT!!

[Larry L]

I come from dirt poor, my dad was a chicken farmer. I was 6 years old before I had a pair of shoes and I got them then because they required shoes in school. I went to college. I had 3 small jobs to pay for it. During the summer I hauled building materials although I wasn't old enough to have commercial license, I hired a driver that I split the take with him. We both made GREAT money. I'm still in college at the age of 66. Apparently I'm a professional student. But if you want a college education, you don't need the grants or borrow your life away, you need to get creative, find a niche, and go to work. Unfortunately  a lot of folks think it needs to be handed to them or the Gov't needs to supply them with it. That's called lazy at my house.

[Sourdough]

While we arn't well off we prepared for our son's education.  We started the year he was born.

A lot of today's young people are in hock up to their teeth for their education.  They have students loans that some will never repay in their lifetime.  My son was at a group discussion on the lab where he works, and where their research is going.  After the business was done, things got informal.  The topic got around to student loans.  Now all these people are graduate students, Sky is the only undergraduate in the group.  Everyone of them was telling how much they had borrowed to get their degree.  In some cases they were still borrowing to continue their Masters Program.  Sky sat there and did not say a thing.  He left at the first oppertunity.

Sky came home and told his Mom and I how thankful he was for what we had done for him.  We put all his Alaska Permanate Fund Dividends in his college fund.  Every time someone gave him money for Christmas or Birthdays, it went into his fund.  When he got a summer job, 50 to 75% went into his college fund.  His last two summers of high school and first three summers of College, he worked as an Expiditor/Laborer for a big plumbing contractor.  The owner paid him $27.00 an hour, with the understanding 75% of his income went in to his college fund.  (Hay after spending 8 to 14 hours a day with a bunch of old Plumbers and Carpenters he came away liking Country Western music.  Work ethic and money was not all he got out of that job.)  Sky hordes that fund, he will not let go of any of that money that he does not have to.  The tution for his last two classes came from the job he has working in the lab.  So far he has not touched the bulk of his College fund.  He graduates in May.  He will start on his Master Program in September.

Sky says that college fund is going to be his down payment on his home, once he finishes his education and settles down.  Can't find fault with that.

[FPH]

If you work it can be done.  I earned my BS, and my wife earned her BS. MS and  PhD........we worked and came out the other side with no debt. 

[DDZ]

Just think how many of lifes lessons can be learned at this school, by working hard, compared to going to a school that has a pack of liberal professors teaching how great socialism is. I don't figure this school is that popular because one of the requirements is that you work.
Isn't it just so much easier to arrange your lifestyle to acquire taxpayer money to go to college, and blame someone or something for your failures.   

[Spirithawk]

It's more popular than you might think. They are fully self sufficient too. They have a very beautiful and quite classy restaurant, all operated by students, that is very popular. They also sell their baked goods there which are so good they about have a cult following. lol They grow their own food, including raising cattle, hogs and chickens. Students even get money for clothing and personal items. They have an awesome museum on campus that has one of the best firearm, Indian artifacts, and Country music related collections anywhere. It's a very cool place to even just visit.  Been there several times and came away very impressed each time.  My mother is in a Hospice home just across the road from the college.
 

[dakotashooter2]

What is sad is that in way to many cases the ONLY advantage college gives you is in getting your foot in the door. Often within a year of being on the job a high school grad and college grad are dead even as far as ability.................. Sometimes it might be cheaper to give the company a payoff to hire you...........................

[Ranger99]

mr. sourdough please give that
young man a big hug on my behalf.


i don't see many young people around
here that will amount to anything.
i'm glad to hear of someone who most
likely wears a cap correctly and doesn't
let his drawertail hang out.
one here across the way just got out of the
pen, another out of juvenile, and one next
door out of juvenile. they wouldn't go to
school, but seem to come up with cash
for beer and smokes and new tatoos.


makes me feel good to hear of an honest
hard working youngster.
there may be hope yet.

[Sourdough]

Ranger99:  I'm a very proud Dad.  I have lots of respect for kids that reach for the stars, and have the drive to achieve what my son, these kids at this college, and others have accomplished.

I'm also thankful for others, and I'm going to start a new thread on that.  Rog

[Ranger99]

i'm proud for him.
what i see in my neighborhood
are apprentice convicts.
we've had several big school
gang fights/riots here locally,
one when a local news crew was
at a school for an unrelated
story, and happened to catch
the fight as it happened. kids
stealing, vandalizing, shooting.
it's pretty sad. one of the neighbors
said "it's just the area that does this
to them" i had to tell her that most
everything was the same as it's been
for the last 45 years or so, the people
are what has changed. she didn't like
that very much. not many of these
kids around here get academic scholarships,
that is if they even graduate high school.


it's good to hear of some kids that
do good and turn into solid citizens