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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (229170)	4/30/2007 7:33:51 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, I understand that state schools are tax-supported for in-staters. As mentioned, I went to one. I even had a work-scholarship. And again, I find your measuring of a person's worth or contribution by whether they worked enough years to satisfy some yardstick of your own contriving peculiar. How many years should Iktomi have worked as a lawyer (yes, I believe your little bird was wrong) to qualify as "worthy" of attending a state U? And I never made it as a professional actress. All that education wasted! Ah, but wait, my son- product of my heart and body and nurturing- is now pursuing that career! ALl the complicated strands of life that weave together in families and generations. Who can point to one thread and make a judgment. Lawyers become lawyers for preparation for life as lawyers My husband was a lawyer. He practiced - very successfully- at one of the top firms in Dallas for several years before deciding that the schedule was not conducive to a healthy family life. Whoops. His bad. Many people change careers, and many more may be stuck in careers they hate. And others may decide that it is more important to be home with their children than pursue their chosen educational field. I know several brilliant women who were attorneys and gave it up to stay at home. I admire them for making that choice. It is generally better for the children. But are you saying they should have farmed the kids out, and stayed in the workforce so as not to betray their educations? Or that they should have foregone their educations in the first place on the chance they may have children someday and want to stay home? Or that they should not have had children? That makes no sense to me. We deal with what we have, in the present, guessing at futures, and we play the cards as they are dealt as best we can. Why would you exclude me in your remarks? I mean, I know you are being kind and I appreciate that, but I am exactly the same as IKtomi! (my undergrad was private, but my grad, and my post grad were public.) I have no statistics for this, but I bet that more women than men end up changing career paths because they try, as Iktomi and I did, to meld both having a family and still using our education in some positive way. where? Like I expect an answer to that Smart man. :) Re: expression of anger. Well, I don't expect it to interfere with your logic. Or to cause you to make statements not based in facts. It gets too confusing when you say things that are just not true. Or when you make judgments about things that are of an extremely subjective nature like staying home vs. working. We stay home because we believe it is best for our children. And if that meant sacrificing some things, so be it. It was not a form of self-indulgence; it was based on our assessment of what children need. Others havne't that luxury, and Michael was right to point that out. Anger should be reserved for the issues that matter, Laz. I guess that is what I think. Pearl Harbor and whether Iktomi or I didn't use our public education as much as you think we should have don't quite equate for me. You can not like us for that, or believe it was a poor decision. And you can disagree with the fact that we believe our education made us better people- which means we give more to our families, to our communities and is a benefit to all. And that's ok too. But it seems a waste of a good mind and energy to me to go after someone for these personal things, rather than on the enormous issues that affect us all these days.