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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1247064, member: 26302&quot;]I will be the first to commisurate with you Jim that access to education is becoming harder, and being able to be middle class as a high school dropout, (or even graduate), is becoming harder every day. Those things are completely true. Always remember we were coming off of WWII as the &quot;factory of the world&quot; so had tremendous demand for production labor then. The world has grown up, and the bar is continually being raised. Every year the demand for education is increasing just to stay where you are. This makes the fact we have let our education systems run up 2 decades worth of double digit price increases all the more troubling. If we wish to maintain a middle class, access to affordable education nationwide is key, and the self discipline to actually attend those classes. I taught undergraduate and graduate school, and even those students hardly put much effort into their education.</p><p><br /></p><p>Short of further education and training, the current middle class will be slipping backwards every year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just as full disclosure, I put myself through undergraduate, and then graduate school. The only help I got was my employer for graduate school. I simply do not know if a kid today could possibly afford college like I was able to without massive student loans. Yes, I worked 40 hours a week and was in the guard, but I graduated with $1500 in debt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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