fishinwrench Posted March 22, 2020 Posted March 22, 2020 3 hours ago, ness said: Right on, brother! Every single hungry kid that shows up on my doorstep is gonna their share of my rice, if I determine their parents are toeing the line!! 😄 Yes, rice is ok. By all means keep any offerings gluten free. 🙄 Keep your money in your pocket for sure. Giving cash might land you on the sex offender registry for "soliciting a minor".
Mitch f Posted March 22, 2020 Posted March 22, 2020 Not to start another controversy....sorry @rps. I have a bit of a problem with the way these Scholarships are handed out. I know someone who’s close to me that their child received a full ride to Washington University because her grades were great but her families income was in the poverty range. The dad was a pizza delivery guy his whole life. The mom was a part time teacher. Good for them right? well, what about the parents who worked their butts off and the kids have the same GPA and test scores? The father saves 150-200K for his girl to go to the exact same school. tell me what is fair?? snagged in outlet 3 1 "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
Devan S. Posted March 22, 2020 Posted March 22, 2020 Man were treading on thin ice here.....agree there is something wrong here but I don't think college education is going to be fixed by changing how scholarships are handed out. IIRC-something like half or better of my "top ten" in my class either aren't working in what they thought they wanted to be in(I.E. they didn't need or require a college degree) and did not finish or graduate college some if not most dropped out. Not to say they aren't good people(because they are) but they were largely the group that got scholarships compared to someone that may have had 2 times the work ethics but it didn't compute exactly to small town high school grades and/or GPA. FWIW: I was in that group(top ten) in a rural community(this is not a STLor city area high school, in fact when I got to college I realized just how far ahead an average student in the burbs was compared to me completely base on what was offered). If you have saved 150/200k for your child to live a life better then you, then I commend you. You have certainly given up luxury to further your kids in life, I also can assume with that kid of sacrifice you have instilled the work ethic to make them productive members of society . I also hope the child that got the scholarships uses them to the best of their ability to live a life that may be better than what her parents provided for her and not to party it away and drop out as a sophomore. In short life isn't fair and at the end of the day......i.e long after you are gone....things will often work out as they should. Be at peace knowing you have done what is right.
snagged in outlet 3 Posted March 22, 2020 Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Mitch f said: Not to start another controversy....sorry @rps. I have a bit of a problem with the way these Scholarships are handed out. I know someone who’s close to me that their child received a full ride to Washington University because her grades were great but her families income was in the poverty range. The dad was a pizza delivery guy his whole life. The mom was a part time teacher. Good for them right? well, what about the parents who worked their butts off and the kids have the same GPA and test scores? The father saves 150-200K for his girl to go to the exact same school. tell me what is fair?? Don’t get me started!
Mitch f Posted March 22, 2020 Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said: Don’t get me started! This is another example of attempting to make things equal and actually hosing everyone else who did the right thing. So where is the incentive for a guy to struggle and save his whole life? its gone forever. Whether I go to the college of my choice, or buy the dream house I want, should depend on how much can I afford, AND (not or) how good your grades/scores are. Like I've always believed, if you try to make things equal, someone else get screwed. I understand life isn't fair. I realize that it isn't fair that LeBron makes 20 times more than Dr. Ben Carson, the world renowned brain surgeon, but I know its the way this country was founded. It also isn't fair that my wife's Chinese relatives are being discriminated against by being refused entrance in many top scale universities even though their scores are far superior (and have the money I might add) to the same students who make it in. Pure racial discrimination. "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
snagged in outlet 3 Posted March 22, 2020 Posted March 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Mitch f said: This is another example of attempting to make things equal and actually hosing everyone else who did the right thing. So where is the incentive for a guy to struggle and save his whole life? its gone forever. Whether I go to the college of my choice, or buy the dream house I want, should depend on how much can I afford, AND (not or) how good your grades/scores are. Like I've always believed, if you try to make things equal, someone else get screwed. I understand life isn't fair. I realize that it isn't fair that LeBron makes 20 times more than Dr. Ben Carson, the world renowned brain surgeon, but I know its the way this country was founded. It also isn't fair that my wife's Chinese relatives are being discriminated against by being refused entrance in many top scale universities even though their scores are far superior (and have the money I might add) to the same students who make it in. Pure racial discrimination. The worse thing a working family can hear when considering college is FASFA. Although used for government assistance all schools and scholarship funds get to look at it. Try and get a scholarship if your parents earn any decent money at all. Mitch f 1
Smalliebigs Posted March 23, 2020 Posted March 23, 2020 On 3/20/2020 at 8:49 PM, slothman said: This is true. Unfortunately, some just won’t. I had a student a few years back that had two kids before she was 17. She straight told me that she didn’t need to pay attention in class VP because it didn’t matter if she graduated or not. Her life goal was to live on government assistance. Her mom did the same thing and so did her grand mother (all their lives) and it was all she knew or cared about. Believe me, she knew exactly how to play the system to get absolutely everything she could possibly get from it. It blew my mind what she told me she could get from the government. Kinda made me want to just give up and quit working myself. She was getting almost as much in benefits doing nothing as I was teaching full time plus extracurricular activity work. Stories like this are why we are screwed as a society. Back to the food for kids who's parents are too lazy to provide for thing. Gavin, so loosers who can make the effort to get over to the school to pick up a free meal when everything is quarantined here in St.Louis but, just can't seem to put that much effort into furthering themselves to be able to provide food for their families??? Sorry but, that is a bunch BS. Instead of quarantining people we need to be sterilizing people. The apathy in our society is at a Pandemic level as it pertains to our country, friggin LOOSERS
Smalliebigs Posted March 23, 2020 Posted March 23, 2020 On 3/21/2020 at 2:12 PM, rps said: I am almost sorry I started this thread. I never intended for this thread to be an opportunity for some people to b**** about other people. Look at the first post people. It seeks support for children and suggests how you can help. If you can't or won't write about that, create your own thread because if do it, I will title it, "A place for old cranky white men to complain about everyone who is not just like them." way to make a blanket statement there bud, not all of us are White LMAO
Terrierman Posted March 23, 2020 Posted March 23, 2020 On 3/22/2020 at 12:41 PM, Mitch f said: This is another example of attempting to make things equal and actually hosing everyone else who did the right thing. So where is the incentive for a guy to struggle and save his whole life? its gone forever. Whether I go to the college of my choice, or buy the dream house I want, should depend on how much can I afford, AND (not or) how good your grades/scores are. Like I've always believed, if you try to make things equal, someone else get screwed. I understand life isn't fair. I realize that it isn't fair that LeBron makes 20 times more than Dr. Ben Carson, the world renowned brain surgeon, but I know its the way this country was founded. It also isn't fair that my wife's Chinese relatives are being discriminated against by being refused entrance in many top scale universities even though their scores are far superior (and have the money I might add) to the same students who make it in. Pure racial discrimination. How does the registrar know they are Chinese?
snagged in outlet 3 Posted March 23, 2020 Posted March 23, 2020 19 minutes ago, Terrierman said: How does the registrar know they are Chinese? FASFA Mitch f 1
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