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Off to college?
My last entry mentioned Juana, who works so many hours she can not attend school to learn English.
The link below is to an AP article about the promise of California’s Community Colleges, and near the end of the article, is more on the subject of what it’s like to work and go to school today:
www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2007/07/19/news/168new0.txt
I was the first and only person in my family to graduate from college, and then I went on for a master’s degree. My eldest daughter just graduated USC in May; my other daughter will be a senior at UCSD. They were lucky and our family has been fortunate to get them through, but the cost of an undergraduate education is staggering and was nearly out-of-reach for us. Educational inflation, like medical inflation, is an issue we must address for the economic security and well-being of the next generation.
