It costs (between fees, tuition, room, board, meals, beer money, gas money, clothing, etc) around $32,000 a year to attend the University of Tennessee. So you look at the kid, at age 18, and even if you were devoted to your son/daughter.....the idea of funding them for $130,000 over four years? It'd drive you nuts.
If there came any hint of boozing up, missing classes, or some whacked-out relationship ruining their attitude about school, most folks would blow-up and get highly frustrated over the situation.
This is one of the little issues that never get discussed.
What if the kid wasn't all that enthusiastic over their degree choice, or felt 'lost' after twelve months of college? What if the kid was consuming two cases of beer weekly by the end of the first semester? What if the kid had picked a class with some nutcase professor, and almost a thousand dollars was wasted on knowledge material that was worthless? What if the kid went through some dramatic break-up with some honky-tonk gal, and lost all desire to finish up the degree?
A lot has changed since the 1970s, and this one issue....the current cost of a college degree, has reached the level where you have to stand there with 'Junior' and ask forty questions over their choice of a college, and sixty questions over their choice of a degree, then every month you have to ask about partying, boozing, and attendance in class. It's become like buying a $90,000 BMW sports car, or spending $30,000 for a championship horse.
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