MYTH #3: No one successful goes to community college.

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My sons attended a public high school, and they push four-year colleges and universities very much.  They won't even allow community colleges to have a presence at their annual college fair, only four-year schools.  My youngest graduated in 2019, and, despite having a local CC campus offering NO COST classes to high school juniors and seniors, many parents and students turned up their noses to it.  Apparently, they didn't want the "stigma" of a community college on their transcript to a four-year school.

My family has taken advantage of everything we can for our sons.  My oldest son got his Associate in Engineering, landed a well-paying job that is now sending him for his BS, and zero debt for any of it.  My youngest took advantage of the CC courses in high school, finished his transfer Associate in Science this month, will begin his junior year this fall at a four-year school, and graduate with a BS at 20.  He'll likely graduate debt-free due to his college fund stretching even further thanks to the free and low tuition at his community college.

If people would get their noses out of everyone else’s... yeah.
They would realize that right now the ROI for a college degree with loans is not worth it.
That’s why I’m here on this forum and trying to get my Bachelors for what I can afford, a little bit at a time, not putting myself in debt for a career change that may or may not happen in this “new normal”.
Keep on keeping on! Now your kids can afford a nice car or down payment on a house because they won’t be forking out half their income to pay student debt!