My recent trip to Savannah was to find out if there was any financial aid available, so that my daughter might continue to attend SCAD beyond this, her freshman year. Sadly, there was not. It is a $52k school that offered 2100.00 in aid. While their president earns $2 million.... I am not in a position to take those loans. nor am I willing to see her saddled with such massive debt for an art degree.
Upon reflecting a few days after returning home, I told my daughter that her days there may well be numbered, and be prepared to formulate another plan to pursue her art.
Today, she has brought to my attention her wish to travel and that maybe she could attend a school in South Africa......
And I thought she was "getting" what the message was....... South Africa... are you kidding me? $2k for a flight, need to be sponsored into the country, with a financial guarantee that you will not occupy their "welfare equivalent", and probably can't work there as a student anyway. Then there is the culture of very rich or very poor with no middle class. Doesn't even know the word aparthied.... Were we this naive and clueless at 19? I won't even go into her twin brother at this time.......
