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Marksman
Member
05-04-2007
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 7:48 am
I remember a while back when comparing wallets and such someone said Dick was bragging about the car he had and maybe even a motorcycle. Essentially establishing he had a lot of money tied up into vehicles. After watching the Power of 10 show and seeing Danielle wanting money to go to school, and now last night Dick was hoping to win some money so Vincent can go to school, I have to wonder why he did not try to spend/save any money for his kids to go to college. Don't get me wrong, I think it is fine for kids to work and go to school and even pay for their own way. I don't get the impression that Dick has ever even made an effort to help his children with school though.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:16 am
Lots of us went to college without help from family. Dani and Nick could go if they really wanted to.
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Castleexplorer
Member
08-10-2005
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:23 am
When my parents spend money for me to go to college, I screwed around a pulled b's and c's. When they stopped paying for college and I HAD to pay for college, I got a lot more serious about studying. I will not pay my daughter's way to college, but she is able to go and her grades are awesome. It's all in the way people parent, I think.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:25 am
my parents were the type that said, you want to go to college you pay for it yourself. get scholarships , job etc. i don't think parents are obligated to send their children to school. it's nice if they help out if they can, but i don't think it's an obligation.
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What555456
Member
06-14-2005
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:27 am
Why would Dick have denied himself anything to help out Dani and Vincent? He had not done so for any other part of their life.
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Alisons
Member
01-10-2003
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:29 am
Dani is not my favorite player in the game, but she is SMART. I hope that she finds a way to go to school if she wants to go.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:32 am
I think Dani's saying money for school was more for a good "sound bite" at the moment. Don't think she's really mature enough now to know what she wants or really work hard for it.
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Marameko
Member
07-15-2002
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:33 am
Perhaps Dick was just bragging, I don't think he has much period.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:35 am
dani stated that she has/had a 4.24 GPA. she could go to school if she choose. she would qualify for financial aide and many scholarships.
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Celticlass
Member
09-10-2005
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:47 am
Wow, pretty impressive having a 4.24 GPA, given the top of the scale is 4.0 (perfect straight A's). I wonder what you do for the extra .24?
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:49 am
celtic, my cousin had an over 4.0 gpa, i forget how he earned that. perhaps honors courses?
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:50 am
Most schools now grade above for classes they are more difficult, and also for "extra credit" type of work.
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Tanzanite
Member
06-28-2005
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:54 am
Well, in my day. the classes were weighted. Taking honor classes, advanced math classes or today's IB classes count for slightly more.
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:54 am
You get extra credit when you take honors courses.
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Msstas1
Member
08-26-2005
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 9:56 am
My daughter has a 4.17 gpa, she has taken weighted classes where if you get an A it's actually worth more than 100%. You can also complete some college credit classes at my daughters high school through a program our local college runs there. She will have 2 college courses completed by the time she graduates this coming May.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:03 am
I think Dani would use some of the money for college. My parents had 6 kids and never once did I even think that they would pay for college for any of us. They were not financially able to so I paid for my own college(only a 2 yr degree) but this was after I had 3 kids. We paid for one yr of college for our son then he decided he wanted to join the Air Force.
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Celticlass
Member
09-10-2005
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:04 am
I know all about weighting at the high school level, I thought she meant college level when she talked about "going back to school" as in she started but had to stop due to $$. I have never heard of weighting at the college level nor have I seen course work labeled as "honors" at that level either (I have an MPH, and attended three different colleges in my educational path). Msstas..congrats. My DD is just starting her college freshman year, and she started with 18 college credits complete (6 courses), so she will be a sophomore at the end of this fall semester. It sure gives them flexibility and opens opportunity to have coursework done ahead of time, and the colleges LOVE that they have done work and are more willing to be generous with scholarship dollars because the student has proven they can handle college level material and are more likely to matriculate.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:06 am
the college i go to has honors classes.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:07 am
I totally agree with you What! Dick hasn't denied himself anything for his kids. Why would he do anything now?
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:08 am
My daughter in law was in an honors program at the University of Texas in which every course she took in her major was an honors course. She used to joke that she was a failure because she did not have a GPA over 4.00 like many of the students in the program.
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Smartypants
Member
03-09-2007
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:09 am
I just graduated and took several "+/-" classes. In these classes -A=3.8, A=4.0, and A+=4.2 so it could be something like this
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:18 am
When Dick is mad at Dani he says he's winning for Vincent and that Vincent needs to go to college. So the topic of paying for a child's education has passed his lips, at least.
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Mssas
Member
08-04-2006
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:20 am
I heard D/D's tiff is over money she borrowed and didn't pay back. Now he's saying he wants to win so he can do this/that for his son/daughter? I wonder if he was given a choice of leave the house and receive therapy for him and Dani's realtionship or remain in the house for the chance at 500,000 what he would do.
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Smartypants
Member
03-09-2007
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:24 am
If you had 500,000 you could get ur own therapy and more...I think Dr. Phil is free
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Loppes
Member
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:31 am
I have one son, only child. We didn't save for him to go to college/university, because we were struggling financially. It meant everything to me for him to be able to go, especially if he wanted to, and thankfully he really did. He got scholarships, bursaries, and to my amazement by 18 was a gold honor roll student. But, what we actually did was have him apply for the interest free student loans, and then when it came time to start paying the loans 4 years later, we make the payments. So in essence, its like a delayed savings. It also worked to our advantage to "catch up" on our financial stability and claim the school fees as an income tax deduction. I think it would probably have been hard for Dick to pay for Daniele going to college, when she refused to communicate with him the past few years. Let alone, it doesn't seem like she is serious about attending school right now. And who knows, maybe the money he had lent her was intended for school, and she used it for something else.
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