More crazy nutty student debt...

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All students do not attend community colleges, which causes your hypothesis to discriminate against students who do not attend such institutions of higher learning. Do you come from "poverty" or a family of non-college graduates? Because trying to tell someone who comes from that sort of situation that "poverty" does not influence their financial, career, and educational choices is hysterical.

Discrimination is "prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex." Please show me how anything even remotely close to that came up in my writings.

The fact that I said the word "poverty" has real meaning when talking about college pell grants is not some "hypothesis" you're talking about (which you made up). Those are real numbers I got from government websites.

My "hypothesis" was that going into debt to go to college was a choice. Just because someone doesn't "seek to go to community college" does not make me wrong. If you CAN go to a less expensive school for 2 or more years to make sure that you don't take on debt, and CHOOSE not to do that, that is as I said "a choice" and not the reality of whether or not you COULD afford to go to college without debt.

I also never said that poverty does not influence anything. I was talking about the federal limits in pell grants versus federal poverty limits.

And yes, I do come from a family of non-college graduates. Almost no one on either side of my family graduated from college. Some didn't even graduate from high school, and my grandfather quit school in the 4th grade to help on the farm after his dad died. No, I don't come from poverty, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the struggle that some people have.

But being poor does not give you a free pass on math. The math still has to work, and reality still comes into play.