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05-19-2019 10:22 PM
@Marp wrote:
@september wrote:On first reading this...that sounds awesome. But did they all “need” this?
In my opinion, there are people living in very dire straits in this country. I make my charitable contributions based on who needs help the most. Most of these people have never have had the opportunity to go to college, even with loans.
There were 400 students in the graduating class and while some, many, all or none of them may meet your criteria the median household income of Morehouse students is under $62,000 a year with an annual attendance cost of approximately $48,723.
In a perfect world anyone that didn't "need" or want this assistance would turn it down (we don't know if anyone did) but I doubt there were many that graduated debt free.
BTW, the benefactor is a Morehouse graduate.
and what if there were some graduates who had worked two jobs to get themselves through college, debt-free? How do you think they feel after seeing the other grads get handed free money after they had worked so hard?
I think I'm "old school". I believe we should all have to work for what we get. with a few exceptions, of course.
05-19-2019 10:36 PM
I will wait and see if this actually happens. I hope it does.
05-19-2019 10:37 PM
@september Hard, honest work has never hurt anyone. Those that accomplished their graduation without any debt by working through school have the self-respect of knowing they did it by themselves. They will be genuinely happy for their classmates. Good people know the difference of sincere happiness and jealousy.
05-19-2019 10:41 PM
How fabulous!!!
05-19-2019 10:46 PM - edited 05-19-2019 10:54 PM
BEAUTIFUL
WONDERFUL
05-19-2019 10:47 PM
It would seem that there are those who would prefer that a student be in debt, and struggle to pay off that loan, than to accept a gift of starting life debt free.
05-19-2019 10:51 PM
05-19-2019 10:54 PM
@BirkiLady wrote:@september Hard, honest work has never hurt anyone. Those that accomplished their graduation without any debt by working through school have the self-respect of knowing they did it by themselves. They will be genuinely happy for their classmates. Good people know the difference of sincere happiness and jealousy.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. I don’t think jealousy plays a role here.
05-19-2019 11:21 PM
Awful, just an awful thing to do...the students & parents took on the debt so they should pay it.
05-19-2019 11:32 PM
We did this for our son. He thought his expenses were paid through a loan that we took out with the stipulation that he’d have to pay it back. His graduation gift was that he found out he was debt-free. I can’t describe the incredible feeling of relief he had.
It’s such a shame college has become so expensive. It was actually affordable when I went.
Glad to see this billionaire is giving back.
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