When I was on the verge of dropping out of college my first time, I didn’t want to drop out mid-semester, so I used my tutors to help me on the days that I wasn’t available to go to school or wasn’t able to make it to class to be able to help me and support me with the work that I missed, because I know that I wasn’t learning at the same pace as my other classmates, but I didn’t want my GPA to dro. [...] But to be a Black single mother, it’s like you have to be able to do everything on your own and not ask for help and be strong and be superwoman. [...] They want you to look at the price and be like, ‘Do you really want to do this?’ And it’s like at the end of the day, I am paying for what I want to do because there isn’t a big support system, especially if you don’t come from a wealthy family. [...] If you don’t come from a family that’s financially capable of taking care of your educational expenses, it kind of leaves you with just a little bit of space for you to try to actually make something work, which is why a lot of people are going to school and working, so it’s hard.” While college affordability and student debt issues are not limited to student parents, the impact of financial issue. [...] So, I had to go in the system to have food stamps and Section 8 and Medicaid and I worked so hard not to be this person, but it’s not being that person.
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