Comment by adrusi

Why, because it goes against the "college is too expensive" rhetoric? The man had to work as a custodian full-time for this to work, and it took him nearly a decade to earn a four-year degree. Are you suggesting that it's reasonable for people from less-affluent backgrounds to have to spend their entire twenties working their way through school while the more affluent finish at 22? And, moreover, this only worked because he got a custodial job at a university, and one which offered good benefits. Last year I lived in a dorm at the University of Maryland and one of the custodians that cleaned the hallway was taking classes similarly to the man in the article (although he was much younger). He told me that it's hard to get a job at the university because of the better benefits, he was able to get it because he had previous custodial experience and because he was interviewed by someone sympathetic to his goal. It's not like this is something that just anyone could do.