Ten Reasons to Send Your Child to College -- the Real Ones
There are the official reasons for sending your child to college. Then there are the real reasons. These are the real reasons.
1. I am under enormous social pressure to send me child to college. If I don't, my friends will never say this, but they will think it: "His child must either be a dolt or lazy."
2. My child is under enormous social pressure to attend college. Other college-bound high school graduates may think: "Low SAT scores? Father a cheapskate? Family in financial trouble?"
3. I think a degree in sociology or some other social science or humanities department will open career doors. The glut of useless college degrees will not affect my child. My child is special.
4. I feel confident that my child will not become a target of Left-wing professors -- no targeting of my child, no ridicule in class.
5. My child is fully prepared to deal with a highly developed curriculum which has been fine-tuned since 1880 to undermine everything parents have taught at home about religion, morality, and justice.
6. My child will have no temptations living in a dorm with mixed-sex floors, no curfew, no dorm mothers, and no campus sexual code other than rules against date rape and demeaning language about alliterative sexual life styles.
7. I can afford $40,000 to $130,000 after taxes. My retirement is secure. Anyway, I will assume so. We'll cross the retirement bridge when we come to it.
8. I know my child will graduate, unlike more than 50% who start college and then don't graduate.
9. My child, unlike the average student, will not leave college owing $20,000.
10. My child will go to church every week, despite the fact that hardly any friends will, no one will be there to monitor attendance, and I will not be there to nag.
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