The Cost of College; The SEED School; Hard Times Generation | 60 Minutes Full Episode 

Educate people born in poverty. Education should be for all. The educated folks born in poverty will give back by building up this country and lifting their communities out of poverty over the generations.

Yet the question no one seems to ask: why is the price of tuition so high in the first place?

I was a student that got no scholarships after high school graduation due to my poor grades and GPA. Today, I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry. I'm saddened to see my friends that got full-rides and never even finished their degrees. I can't wait to graduate and upset a lot of people.

Here is the thing. A lot of people are not ready for college at the age of 18 and don't know what they want out of life. It is important to work for a few years and see the real world before making such a huge financial commitment. I wouldn't make my son or daughter basically take out a mortgage at the age of 18 and don't know anything about life. Go work and come back with a fresh perspective for a few years. That's what my roommate did and he's been doing well ever since.

0:37: 🎓 Bill and Melinda Gates have funded a scholarship program that provides low-income minority students with a college education, resulting in high achievement and increased earning potential. 5:56: 🎓 Universities are implementing new initiatives to increase diversity and support first-generation low-income students in higher education. 12:14: 🏫 Seed is an innovative public boarding school in Washington, D.C. that provides a 24-hour supportive educational environment for low-income students. 15:53: 🏫 Seed Public Charter School in Washington DC is providing personalized instruction and instilling values in students to help them succeed academically and in life. 27:16: 😢 A family in Florida has been living in a truck for five months due to financial hardships caused by the Great Recession, and they are not alone as the number of homeless children in America continues to rise. 31:49: 💔 A family in Central Florida, who became homeless, shares their struggles and the challenges they faced living in a car with their children. 36:45: 💼 Education is everything to X, who plans to be a child defense lawyer, and growing up in a truck has made them appreciate the American dream. Recap by Tammy AI

7:45-7:55 range. The young lady is entirely correct. Growing up in a household that encourages, supports, and lays out the path toward a college education is a MASSIVE advantage. And yes, it's a leg up right from the get-go.

Wow. The note at the end of the video. The Metzger children were being abused while this was being made, and nobody knew, nobody told, nothing was said. Shocking.

it makes me sick...bingo for a chance at life. a number on a ball...disgusting..EDUCATION SHOULD NOT BE A LOTTERY!!!

These schools only accept ~5% of applicants, so good grades isn't enough. It's amazing to see how they are rethinking their values. The point is that they are recontextualizing what makes an applicant stand out to help admissions staff understand that there is value in things other than legacy, extra curriculars, travel abroad, etc. which is what used to give kids a leg up. Now working to help support your family can also be equally as valued. Getting good grades while living in poverty or coming from a single parent household is a hell of an accomplishment and should be treated as such.

0:00 Introduction 0:11 The Price of Admission 11:52 The SEED School 24:57 Hard Times Generation

College was the most costly mistake of my entire life. 25 years of payments, I will never dig out under predatory interest rates under an IDR.

I’m happy for Arielle and Austin. She’s graduated from law school and her brother is in uni. I hope and pray she gets over her father’s physical and sexual assault.

Luckily here in sweden, education - even university is free

This should expand throughout the US this program is awesome every child deserves a chance❤

I grew up poor. I've always worked so hard to avoid being there ever since. Poverty is a killer in just about every aspect of a life. The human spirit has no skin color or accent, it's great to see any good person do well

I worked as a founder teacher at a brand new Charter HS in East San Jose, and after three years, I was burned out. That poor teacher being proud of being there until 10:30 pm will not make it. No one can work without a set contractual day for a career of 30+ years. They’ll die trying.

Some very familiar and close to my heart stories! These experiences don’t wash away but they can make you stronger ❤😢

I am totally encouraged. Even though i am struggling now, i have big hopes.

Here's what the deal is: many public, private, and for profit universities and colleges sit on and grow their hundreds of billions in endowment funds-especially public and private ivy league schools(i.e. UVA or Harvard). What people don't realize is there is so much insane amounts of money out there, and virtually anyone can attend college for free, but do not attend for free because colleges were designed and engineered to generate profit, grow endowment funds, and exploit students for fees and out of control costs.

So inspiring as a teacher!

We live in a system that rewards owners but we send kids to school to be obedient workers.

From Homeless Teen To Stetson Graduate May 22, 2020 As a homeless 15-year-old, Arielle Metzger stood beside the old truck that served as home for her family in 2011 and told CBS “60 Minutes” that education “is everything to us.” “I plan to be a child defense lawyer,” she said on the national news program. “If I focus on my studies, I have that opportunity.” This month, she graduated from Stetson University with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a 3.35 GPA. Her name has since been changed to Autumn Johnson. But she still plans to apply to law school and become an advocate for children, after her wedding to her longtime boyfriend. Her journey over the past nine years is a moving story set into motion by a mere coincidence, or providence, as she now sees it. Just days after completing her undergraduate degree, she was interviewed on campus for “CBS This Morning” and the segment will air Tuesday, May 19, during the 8 a.m. hour. Her story began with the Great Recession of 2008 when her family joined the wave of people losing their homes to foreclosure. Her father, a carpenter and handyman in Central Florida, had been hit hard in the economic downturn. Her mother had passed away in early 2000. When the family lost their home in May 2010, her father bought the old truck for $1,000 on Craigslist. He moved into it with Autumn, her younger brother and their meager possessions. Home was wherever he could find an inconspicuous place to park the truck in the Sanford area. A Second-hand T-shirt Back then, a local church would set up every Thursday at the Sanford Civic Center beside scenic Lake Monroe to feed the homeless. The church also put out second-hand clothing, folded, stacked in piles and available for free to people in need. In one stack, Autumn spotted a green-and-gray Stetson University T-shirt. “I found it,” she recalled, “along with a Yale shirt, at the bottom of a pile of clothes.” The Yale shirt was too small. But the Stetson shirt was the right size and her favorite color: green. “I immediately loved it because it was a baseball T-shirt and I was very much a tomboy,” she said. Around the same time, a state social worker received a report of a family living in a truck in the parking lot of the Lake Mary YMCA. The social worker found the family and questioned them about their living situation. During the discussion, the social worker mentioned that “60 Minutes” had contacted her, wanting to interview homeless families living in their vehicles. Would they be interested? The family agreed. A then-freshman honors student at Seminole High School, Autumn wore the shirt when the CBS crew filmed her walking through the school’s covered breezeways and sitting on a bench, reading. The segment, “Hard Times Generation,” aired Nov. 27, 2011, and it prompted an incredible outpouring of support, CBS News reported. At Stetson, President Wendy B. Libby, PhD, received a flood of emails from faculty, alumni and others wanting to help the teen. “It was so obvious to me upon meeting Autumn and her brother that the university, in line with our mission, had to offer free tuition, room and board,” Libby said recently. “And her brother is making his way through campus; he’s going to be a junior next year. So, I’m very thankful we could do that for them. I really congratulate her on her graduation, her engagement and her future. And I really hope she goes to Stetson Law." Please Google for remainder of story: From Homeless Teen To Stetson Graduate

When I clicked on this video, I thought it was going to be actually addressing the cost of college, not about Bill Gates sending a handful of kids to college for free...

12:44 🎉 their joy made me so happy!! Nobody can't imagine what this truly means when you can't afford education!

I’m so proud of these kids

Love this!

Thank you very much 👍

GOD bless Mr. and Mrs. Gates for helping students. A true blessing. 🙏🏽⚘

Great report!!! I almost cried. Great humanity still thrive in America.

I teared watching this ❤

This 60 minutes was beautiful 😊 and inspiring 😊

16:50 Love it!! 45 minutes of reading per day!!! ❤

Very inspiring

About 75 % of the classes offerred at top level schools could be taught on line. There is no reason that these classes should be limited to sitting in the classroom. The cost of school per student could be reduced by a large amount. Why isn't that happening?

It seems we are returning to those infamous days of Homelessness. In places like San Francisco, it's worse than ever.

This is so beautiful!

I graduated college when I was 27. Now I make less than $20k a year. To buy a house you need to work two jobs and go the extra mile to be notice by upper management. Attending a good college is a requirement in life to get a high income.

Awesome!!

Forever grateful

Very interesting

I feel like crying watching the boy's eyes being interviewed..😢He looks sad..😢

In some counties are almost free the superior education. The capitalism can not solve all problems, problems that its ocurrence affecs, directly a human being from childhood. They are: Health, household and eductation

why not just reduce to cost of college, why do common people need to depend on the rich ??? this is big scam by rich people...

I've been in Central Florida. It's no joke.

3:13 Wow! 🎉Kudos to her for earning that bachelor's and master's degrees in Education. GREAT INITIATIVE by the Gates Foundation l! ❤

Brillian children. I like how Ariel is positive to call the situation "an adventure."

The SCOTUS with 2 decisions just made it much more difficult for poor and minority students.

So it is always a chance for low-income and high-income what about the people in the middle They got lost it can't afford these colleges and they can't earn it free

I got chills, because I was accepted into college based on my background. Other institutions would not of given me a chance. Now, I am pursing my masters. The youth is the future. America will not survive if racism persists.

They could include trauma trained therapists to work with the kids with C-PTSD. Without real therapist the 11% drop out won't make it.

It's sad we're past the point of having a family safely in the US. I've been laid off twice and the housing market is insane here. I'm hoping to move abroad and build a career, buy a small home, and start a family. SEA is high on my list.

They had that recession but I could never even think of having the money that those people had. I was always poor and could never get out of it, or caught up in peoples politics. I was already homeless once, and no it was not due to drugs, and now I'm facing that again, because of my age, and yes I'm still looking for work and I have a job too. I am starting up my education again, so I'm hoping that helps on top of my job search, but I get turned down a lot. The salvation army is hanging up on me when I call them, so that seems to be out of the question. Still trying to be hopeful

I'm happy to see Georgia State University there.

To bridge this gap is extremely important yet it is also just as imperative not to dilute the curriculum / material. Think of surgeons and fighter pilots, their curriculum would never be readjusted to accommodate this issue. Therefore, the best individual will be the one or increase the probability of lost lives.

Poor kids are being deprived of their childhood to obtain 30% higher grades than their low income peers. They should look at Finland's education system - no homework, lots of free time, and successful students

A degree will not help if people don’t know how to work hard and have a degree in something economically useful.

How can my kids apply for these scholarships?

Once again, what is not being address it the over inflated cost of education in the US, some of these schools cost per semester more that the parents make in a year.

Glad to see Georgia State U represented.

Proud graduate of The University of Central Florida

My kids when to UT and Princeton they came out stupider that when they when in.

Gates has been getting a lot of bad press lately and this 60 Minutes piece helps to rehabilitate his image.

You are laughing at snail mail but its more sentimental and memorable to get that especially if it’s very significant one.

Middle income families are being so left behind when they earn barely above the criteria to qualify for any financial aid.

10:25 *Andrew Yang has entered the chat*

Did Rojay eventually go to college and graduate?

Very inspiring video however, what about my bright girls who are unable due to our financial situation’s to go to college without incurring life altering debt especially if they can’t make it through however they deserve a chance to try???

Let's not forget, you don't go to college to get a job, you go to college to start your own "BUSINESS"

Unfortunately, graduating from college and universities has seen much better days. Since the turn of the 21st Century, college degrees are increasingly worthless with dim wit life outlooks. Read "The College Scam" book written by Charlie Kirk!! The cost of this book is like pennies as compared to college tuition and fees.... Good read!!

Thank you Princeton. I don’t usually agree with affirmative action, but as a first gen college grad from a single parent household, this is the best approach to equality.

surest way to narrow gap is college degree? From personal experience my engineering degree is worthless and terrible waste of time & money. My advice - want to be hopelessly poor & homeless? Then go earn a degree like mine. There's a reason it's called "BS".

so sad that we need to draw a lottery for a chance at a quality education

Going to college is brutal! Isn't there something easier?

ITS ABSURD & then colleges ask alumni for donations. WHAT?!

I love to see changes such as this! The overturning of affirmative action in the US was such a loss, and I’m saying that as a white female who is definitely not the first person in her family to go to college. Those from lower socio-economic statuses don’t have the same advantages that others do. Affirmative action gives them a chance. Those who are from the upper class will still get into college, just maybe not their first choice. This is what is best for the economy and country as a whole.

Where does the college money really go? I dont see professors driving lamborghinis so why have college costs risen so much?

What the system dossent do to their people, how can they just stop helping familys because they hasn't found a job.. I feel so bad fore thoes people. What has this world come to 😢 That would never happen here In Denmark.

The public education system has gotten so bad that a program like SEED needed to be created....damn.

I have to laugh….the video on Princeton is put together by ASU?

Why do people have to go to a private school after HS? Those freshmen and sophomore classes are no better than at any ordinary school. Get your electives out of the way at your local Community College (and possibly get your two year degree) and then transfer to a state school. I work in higher ed. I see students driving cars way more expensive than what I drive. What's going on? Can't Junior live a simple life? Looking at the poor quality of students I sometimes get, I think we need to trim the number of students getting into higher education based on IQ and true intentions to actually STUDY. College is NOT for everyone and it doesn't have to be.

Poverty affects academic performance especially children. Using the current performance for a homeless child is a guarantee he won't progress.

0:22 “The surest way to narrow the wealth gap is to earn a college degree.” Orly? Because I have a college degree, and my plumber out-earns me 3:1. Even if you factor in overhead, she still earns more than double.

Great! Now do that for every other school in America not just ivy leagues!

It's good to give back. Thank you Bill and Melinda Gates for supporting American education and global health.

The Seed founders are some incredible human beings. God bless you both!

❤ JUST DO IT!

the truth is all those first generation kids will never be able to afford to tuition when compared to the wealthier families in the first place. so really you are setting them up for failure.

Were also hurting for trade skills people as well. We do need plumbers. :)

We must have seats for low income and minority students. The more seats the better. In addition we need trades recruiting kids at HS while the kids are in HS

Wo wo wo ~ Wait one Minute ~ Doesn’t DeSantis want to ( Make all of America ) Look like Florida ??

There are few things in life that one will never regret achieving. A college degree is one of those things. 📚📚📚

5:08 Apparently in 1983, they had a few women or black students. And one tiger.

All of them living in fear of they are going to pay the bills on time to survive.

Very lightning on the stresses you go through in life. The thing to keep in mind is God first and continue to strive.

Autumn spoke really said other kids should be grateful for what they have and not fight with their parents when it was, in fact, prudent for her to have fought with her parent. Oof.

God Bless the people who need help in these hard times 🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️

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I think it’s great that Mr and Mrs Gates are giving scholarships. However, there are so many other ways to achieve “upward mobility” instead of “going to college.” Going to college is not a magic ticket to wealth. Just because someone doesn’t go to college doesn’t mean that you’re shut out of the American dream. I know people with high school degrees who “figured it out” and they are wealthier than I am. Mr. Gates, China will NEVER beat us at ANYTHING.

so much dream cloud reality zero reasoning, good luck!

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