Just Your Average 68-Year-Old College Freshman.
Will this generation of young people do better than their parents?
Don’t be surprised if some students answer with a puzzled, what-outer-planet-are-you-
Their parents are working fewer hours for less money (wages are at a 65-year low). They’ve been in and out of emergency rooms, unemployment lines, bankruptcy courts. They probably didn’t finish college (sixty percent of us don’t).
There are no fairy godmothers sprinkling legacy dust on them, but these students do get help. Tuition at a community college is as low as $3000 a year. Pell grants and other federal student assistance cover most of the costs for an associate degree. The kids can get a running start. Some of the most amazing people I know were once townies.
Priti, Ali, Yourytzi, Hanna, Annam, Maria, Roger, Gentillio, Richard, Jared, Lisa, Cris, Cary, Michelle, Jonathan, Joanne, Isaac, Sang, Avril, Jonas, Hazam, Jennifer, James, Bryn, Rebecca, Jannah, Pedro, Andrea, Justin, Connelly, Aleksandrija and Hannah—yeah, they’ll will make their families proud.
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