I;m not sure I understand. She paid her tuition the same way others did. How is that a misuse? Do you mean because it's a state university? I went to UVa. for grad school. Does getting an education from a state U. imply some kind of obligation? If so, then I know an awful lot of people who are in debt. I guess that means I am, also.
We get our educations as preparation for life. No one knows exactly what that life will be, what demands will be made, where we will end up. When you are 18 years old, you do the best you can to predict what might make you happy and provide a secure future. No one knows if he or she will marry, have children, end up the sole breadwinner, or stay at home.
Also, Iktomi was fully employed as an attorney after graduation-- not an intern. I;m not sure where you got the intern idea. I have always known she worked after graduation and where. She worked, as I did, had babies and stopped working, as I did, and then she did sub work, and got her teaching cert, and taught, as I in my own way did, working it around the children's schedule.
I don't understand this arbitrary placing of valuation on lives, as if we can measure anyone's objectively. It seems extremely counterproductive. I can understand having anger or indignation about things, but not the way it is sometimes expressed around here. |
