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It does, but there are a large number of limitations to it. It is much like a
military services commitment, where you pretty much go where and do what they tell
you. Personally, I chose not to take such a program for my graduate work, and am glad
I did. By having an assistanceship in grad school, I still was able to graduate with
very little in loans, but had much more freedom. In my district, over 50% of teachers
quit within the first three years, because the working conditions are so poor. I know
several who are sticking it out only because of loan forgiveness. In my case, having
that over my head would have made a hard decision-to leave teaching-even harder, and
added stress at a time when I was already having severe problems due to my work
environment.

Joni J Rathbun wrote:

> 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.

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