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booger
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posted April 01, 2016 09:03 AM
My wife and I give a scholarship to a graduating senior from my home town. The only requirement is that they show financial need and they need to go to the college I attended in Hays, Kansas. We set this up in memory of my dad who did not get to see me graduate from either high school or college.
My best friend teaches in that school district, and the HS guidance counselor is another high school friend of mine. They go through all of the applicants and make a recommendation to us as to who is most deserving.
We got the packet of applications in the mail yesterday and went through them last night. The young lady we all picked is most deserving.
I stopped after the first 3 recommendations, but my wife continued to read the rest of the apps. She was reading along, and her mouth kind of fell open.
All of the kids filled out a boilerplate app, and then had to write a short essay about what their future plans were and why they were potential worthy recipients.
The essay this young man wrote was something I hope is not indicative of 18 year olds across the nation, but I could be wrong...I never expected to see it in rural Kansas.
His essay was pretty good up until the last paragraph. That is when he expressed his opinion that he was hoping to get scholarships to pay for his entire 4 year education. He indicated that college was a time of study, not for work or going into debt with student loans. He pretty well lost me there, since I worked 30 hours a week while taking a full load in college.
This is where he REALLY got me...this is his quote word for word...
'If we were to go out into the real world to actually pursue our career choice, then we would have to work extra hard in order to pay off our student loans, it's ultimately unethical'.
My wife looked at me and said, 'Well, sounds like he's going to vote for Bernie Sanders!'...
Definitely not the thing to say to a conservative capitalist that controls a checkbook...amazing!
[ April 01, 2016, 09:09 AM: Message edited by: booger ]
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Lone Howl
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posted April 01, 2016 09:41 AM
Thats the way of it nowdays...geez.
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Leonard
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posted April 01, 2016 01:22 PM
Sure, and the distress by a female student from (I believe Emory) that said she would be really uncomfortable sitting in class next to somebody that didn't agree with her on the subject of Roe vs Wade.
We have really lost this generation to the Liberal socialist professors filling their heads with radical, completely unAmerican ideas. Right before our eyes. I told my son in law a month ago; yank my granddaughter out of Santa Barbara before it's too late. Not six months ago, she was such a sweet little innocent thing. A month ago, she was lecturing me on the dangers of Fracking and our groundwater. From a decidedly left wing point of view. I never saw that coming. She had just been graduated from HS last year, and I had never heard a political word uttered before this.
They have control of these young impressionable minds and the goal is not a genuine education. It's all political.
Seems, if memory serves? Not long ago, a bunch of Harvard students were complaining that midterms were interfering with their campus activism. And, they are covered by The Affordable care Act under their parents policy until they are 26!
When I was 26, I had two kids and owned a home.
Good hunting. El Bee
[ April 01, 2016, 01:23 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Lonny
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posted April 01, 2016 02:09 PM
Booger, Good on you for doing this. There are some very deserving young people out there who could use the money.
I'm part of a committee of 3 that selects the winners for half a dozen scholarships. The money ranges from $500 to $5000. The majority are in the 500-1000 range. So its not life changing money, but it helps.
I got to reading some of the essays recently to help decide who should get the award when the criteria was close. Some essays were very well done and you could tell some of these young people have a good grasp on life. Other essays were absolute jokes though. One essay was about an electronic spat this gal had with one of her best friends. She managed to throw in Snap-Chat, Twitter, Facebook and the whole shitteree while describing this life changing spat she had with a former friend.
There are some young people out there who really do have their heads on straight and will figure out how to make something of themselves just fine. There is also the faction that won't grow up for years, the problem is some of these adult kids, have kids, but have no idea how to connect the dots in life.
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Paul Melching
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posted April 02, 2016 09:18 AM
Bless you and yours for being good people full of good actions !
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