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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈2/18/2018 8:35:09 am PST

re: #329 Anymouse 🌹

College was out of reach for kids before the Powell Memorandum. I graduated in 1978 and was accepted to a number of colleges. My mother plainly told me β€œI can’t afford it.”

Though I was the salutatorian of my class, college was out-of-reach. I was accepted to the colleges I applied to; my family could not afford any.

Instead, it was the high seas and Haze Grey Cruise Lines for me.

Conservatives blame student loans for the high cost of for-profit colleges. I think there’s some truth in that.