The less the parents earn, the easier it is for the children to get Bafög. Great thing.
I keep reading about parents who feel burdened by their children’s studies. Why don’t these students (they are responsible adults after all) take the completely unproblematic student loan, which you get without any collateral and above all without mom + dad, meaning off the parental apron strings into your own life and invest in qualification. Maybe parents also just don’t want to let their children (adults) go into their own responsibility, away from the parents…
I know several students WITHOUT or with little Bafög who have done it quite consciously WITHOUT mom/dad because they don’t want anyone to interfere. As a parent, you can give something, but dependence on the parents I find inappropriate and the feeling remains that I (once again) wouldn’t have made it alone without the generous parents; a pity!
This great opportunity of the student loan for EVERYONE is often kept quiet, something that doesn’t exist in many countries!
How do others manage who study and whose parents’ household income barely reaches 50/60 thousand?
With the student loan, quite simply, that’s how my two did it, all alone, like adults do. In hindsight, it was good that I didn’t have any money left for it back then. They are paying it back now that they have good salaries. For me, it is a healthy thing to invest in my own life!
Everyone can study here!!!
And students who can only wait tables, for them that lowers equal opportunity
That might seem that way, on the other hand, I generally experience such students as more “resourceful” because they have prepared their lives all by themselves and can be proud of that.
By the way, I am in favor of more and above all easier to apply for scholarships for talented students – which in case of scarcity should preferably go to low-income students (just wanted to say something).
A very important aspect!!! Abroad, I experienced dramatically that “richer” children were clearly preferred even with visibly lower intelligence, and thus much “quality” in the country was wasted. The result is that more and more dumb “rich” stayed among themselves, put simply; such tendencies or results can be observed in many countries, by the way.
No wonder if you only traveled during your studies and didn’t gain practical experience
If only they really “traveled,” meaning experienced life and were not on a paid long-term vacation. I often hear about hotels, bungee jumping, two weeks elephant feeding, then two weeks playing with poor children, and then a few weeks on the beach because of the previous stress. This has meanwhile become a highly profitable business branch worldwide, and orphanages are established exactly because of this Western fashion. A documentary about “poverty porn” once showed this shocking perversion. With real, responsible “traveling” (not parent-paid vacation), young people experience and learn something meaningful for life.
Sorry for my sarcasm, but the culture of envy here in Germany is simply unbearable. By the way, I’m off again because I “unfortunately” meet almost all exclusion criteria.
That is a bit too whiny for me and almost reminds me of Peter Ustinov’s “Quo Vadis” :D.
Why should I feel envy for something that only plays a secondary role in my own life? Sometimes I miss the awareness described by :
We know our luck and appreciate it very much.
Thanks!!! THAT is the magic formula and you don’t have to explain or apologize for anything – just feel good!
Sure, there is envy, that is human but not exclusively German as is often spread. But apparently, there is also this almost compulsive urge to present oneself as average, i.e. not better off, or to be ashamed of the existing prosperity; possibly this comes from the fear of said envy. But for this fear, I am not responsible, nor is the actual “financial average Joe,” these worries would have to be worked on by the affected person themselves.
It is a strange development for me that almost everyone wants to have a leadership position or already has one, but in private life likes to count as the very simple Indian (see Merz’s airplane logic); but the real simplicity of the Indian is not really wanted to be lived.
Sorry for my sarcasm, but the culture of envy here in Germany is simply unbearable.
It’s bad when you are confronted so directly with different people’s situations, I understand. A downright silly phrase about the always envious Germans. Bad news: Exactly THAT is rather German, namely feeling envied and therefore bad… but others cannot solve that for you.
By the way, I’m off again here
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