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groundloop

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3. Thanks for the kind words re. Georgia Tech....

Reply to n2doc (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 11, 2014, 03:23 PM

Jan 2014

I graduated from Tech, and my son is going there now.... so I'm a little biased.

One of my pet peeves about our state is how poorly funded the schools are, including the university system. It's insane the amount of student loan debt that kids have to take on now to get through school. I'm helping out my son as much as I can, but he'll be over $60,000 in debt when he finishes, that's absolutely ridiculous.

And as for our public schools, my daughter's high school only has one set of books which have to stay in each classroom. Kids can't take books home with them, so I don't see how the hell they're supposed to be able to do homework (other than those stupid busy-work word search puzzles).

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