The Duggars and CollegePlus

[sanantone]

Yes, poor families exist, if that hasn't already been acknowledged a few dozen times in this thread. That same resource indicates 79.4% of households with children are food secure, indicating an overwhelming majority of parents can, if pressed to do so, pull money from somewhere if circumstances require. My family has been there and done that (nothing more fun than my husband and I living off ramen noodles so we could afford diapers and medicine for our son), which is why, now that we're more secure, we will drop ridiculous sums of cash for reasons we can only barely explain to ensure our son has every advantage we can give when he's someday in our own shoes to hopefully spare him those ramen noodle-mandated meals. It's parent logic, and I never claimed it would make sense. It merely is.

But that wasn't the point of the conversation. Cyrus asked what his options would be coming from a poor family. Truly poor families would not be able to pull that kind of money from anywhere. The millions of children who live in poverty and need the most help with financing college will not be helped by CollegePlus.