[quote=livinincali]
How much is that experience worth to you and how exactly is that experience different than moving out of your parents house, moving in with some roommates and getting a job to pay for it. Moving out of your parents house and getting the experience of living on your own is what you describe. Why do you think it takes college to live that experience.
There’s plenty of non-college students in their early 20’s that live a lifestyle really similar to the college students. They get a lot of those same experiences and they didn’t have to pay for college to do it. Now college might feel like a safer place to send your child. It’s a more controlled environment and colleges today will help babysit your kid a bit, but it’s really not that different.[/quote]
Oh I’m not disputing that your route produces any less of a “learning” experience. It’s just that unfortunately I think the kid in that scenario has far fewer opportunities to enter the job market and get a job.
Hopefully I’m wrong and things REALLY change in the next decade. But I’ll continue to save each month as I don’t see college getting any cheaper the next decade and I still think in the next decade or so a traditional college experience will still have a better opportunity to get a strong job vs. the online diploma route.
This is one of those times when I’d like to be wrong.
