🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ted Rosenberg wrote:

> 
> My youngest daughter got tired of high school in 10th grade.  As her SAT's were
> 1440 (in the beginning of 10th grade,) she simply took the bus to the local
> community college and enrolled.  The only problem she had was the computer
> didn't believe her birthday.  Despite the SAT's they had her take their own
> entrance exam to be sure.
> They then talked her into taking her GED's and she "aced them" with a 315.
> Maryland gave her an Honors Diploma - which says nothing about GED on it, but
> she put the GED on her Cirrocumuli Vita.  She then transferred to an extremely
> prestigious college, with $30,000 of MERIT scholarships - she has since
> received another $9,000 of merit scholarships.

I tried this once but was told I couldn't get the GED until after my
class had graduated. So my choice was ... wait until my class graduated
then go do the GED or finish with my class. There were no colleges
within commuting distance so I just finished it out.

> 
> ALSO, anyone who wants to teach elementary or secondary school instead of
> college can usually get a full scholarship by simply promising to teach for a
> number of years.
> 

In my experience, the way this works is:  If you teach in certain
(predefined) low income, economically stressed or disadvantaged
areas, so on and so forth, for a certain period of time, the government
will forgive certain government loans. I think this little goodie is
not well known. I certainly learned about it too late. Three new
teachers working with me my first year were all on the program.
I had no idea my home community was one that qualified. I could
have taken loans instead of paying cash and had those loans paid
off for me by the feds.  I don't know if the program still exists
or not.