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Aug 2, 2015
8:15:07pm
Is it a single unit for your kids to live in or is it several units and they'll
be in just one with manager responsibility?

A bit about me - I have 10 kids. Kid 2 & 3 are BYU-I students. #2 spent a year there before going on her mission. #3 went on her mission first and is heading out there this fall. Kid #4 graduated HS & JC with an associates in the same week and is taking a year off before applying for college to raise money but when she does she is targeting BYU-I and not Provo at all so she can be with her sisters. Kid #5 is entering her Senior year and will be dual enrolled as a college freshman and will have 1 year of college done when she graduates HS and only wants to go to BYU-I as well to be with her sisters.

So child 2-5 - all girls want to go to BYU-I. They really will need to work while they go to school in order to reduce the amount of debt they will have (mom & dad are not paying for their school).

BYU-I's tract's are to say the least NUTS. #2 is Winter/Spring. #3 is Fall/Spring. Who knows what the others will be.

So we have to make a trip to Rexburg in Sep. then pick her up the week before Christmas and then go back out to drop the other off after the New Year, then go back out to bring #3 out in the Spring and then back to pick them both up at the end of Spring only to come back again with one of them in Sep...

Also with this crazy break up and not being allowed to stay in housing over Christmas break or between Spring/Fall means a huge amount of travel expense as well as lost opportunities for meaningful employment.

Certainly if they got lucky and got in with good campus employment it might work well for them. But both have worked at Walmart and could do well working there in Rexburg or back here in the Midwest...however when my daughter got back from her mission in June she went in for an interview and they gave a lame excuse of more applicants than positions (which is a lie - my wife is a supervisor there) when in reality it was they knew she'd head to school in Sep. Someone they wouldn't need to train would be available for 3 months and they didn't make the easy choice there. This will likely continue as a burden for her anywhere she goes because of the 3 1/2 months at school, 4 months home, 3 1/2 months of school, a month home and then back to school again...

We looked into buying a cute little 3 bedroom house part way between campus and Walmart so they could stay year round, keep their employment, etc...unfortunately at BYU-I if my wife and I don't actually live in the home then my kids are not allowed to consider it as living in their parents home...this is something that is allowed at BYU.

And with me still having 5 other kids not even thinking about college yet (oldest other one is a freshman this fall) that house could get 15 years of use from my kids at a likely significant savings when considering maintaining employment, not as many forced trips home and consolidated savings on room rental rates. I would have zero intention of allowing any non-sibling living in the home. Also if one of my kids gets married then they'd also have to find a new place so it didn't mess up housing for the rest of my kids.

But, alas, BYU-I bowing to the approved housing lobby have created their rule in such a way that I can't do that plan....
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Originally posted on Aug 2, 2015 at 8:15:07pm
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