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Gene Howe wrote:I became eligible for the GI Bill after 6 years of service during the Viet Nam "conflict". I was honored to serve and grateful for the educational opportunity. Service to the country (in one form or another) can be a way to pay for an education. And such service is an education in and of its self.

I completed my under graduate work on the GI Bill but it was not all free. The GI Bill when I used it only paid tuition and not always all of that. To complete in the time window that I was given, I had to go to school the year around (summer school). After I graduated I received a notice from the VA that I had been over paid for tuition. Summer school was insufficient (in hours) to qualify for tuition assistance. The VA only paid for full time tuition.

I had to pay back that tuition assistance that I had been given for two full summer sessions. No forgiveness there at all. The VA simply attached my active duty military paycheck.

dusty wrote:Something is certainly wrong with our educational system. The USA was, at one time, ranked #1 in education. That is no more.....

Too many people are afraid to admit the obvious truth. The simple cure for Education in America is to get rid of government and unions in that area completely.
Unions have one priority: unions. (And yes, many union members are also union Victims.)
Gov't? Dept.s of "Education"? Make me laugh!

On one hand you have education as a cause.
On the other, be it union or gov't, you have as raison d'etre only power, enrichment, power, "tenure" and all that entails, power, money and power.