[quote=scaredyclassic]Parents paid undergrad. Could’ve gone to a,state school for free though. My parents wanted the most prestigious for me, I want the best value for my kids.
Law school loans still out there. Student Loans are very scary and dangerous….[/quote]scaredy, it really seems to me like you should have qualified for “Public Service (partial) Loan Forgiveness” for one or more of your student loans at some point … that is, if any of them are Federal Direct Student Loans, they aren’t too old and you’ve been making regular payments on them over the years.
No one has a harder and more “needed by society” (white collar) job than you do, imho. If some in “society” don’t feel they need people in your position, its due to their own profound ignorance. I worked in the “system” as well and never took such comments personally.
You could have joined a civil firm right after passing the bar exam, brought in client(s), chocked up billable hours ad nauseam and could have likely been made partner by now … a far more lucrative proposition than the “dedicated foot soldier” path you chose. For that reason alone, I feel you deserve whatever “loan forgiveness” you can qualify for, if at all possible.
Yeah, I wanted/want the “best value” for my kid(s) as well. We are fortunate here in Cali that our public university systems are the best and still fairly reasonably priced, in spite of all the fee hikes in recent years!
