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writes:i didnt get the grades i needed for college and i knew i wouldnt get my course. over 70,00o have applied here at home to got to college and to help me get my course i filled out a disablity form to aid me in getting my desired course. i got offered another course today which is slightly less than what i wanted due to the disability form. i didnt deserve this course as i didnt get the grades required for this course. so many people didnt get any offer for a course placement and i feel guilty as i dont deserve this course. should i accept it. it is a back door to my preferred choice afterall? Reply to this Question
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reader, anonymous, writes (23 August 2010): Okay, I'll give you an example.
When I was going back to college as a mature student, you had to be a full 12 months on the dole before you could get back to education allowance. So I just 'got fired' and went on the dole for 12 months, so that I would get paid 200 bucks a week for going to college.
Now I know lots who were months even weeks too late to do that and now have to work a job as well as go to college. They have to work their weekends and some evenings just to make what I get for nothing. How does that make sense?
Basically these people contributed by paying tax, while I had to leech off the government for a whole year. It's completely illogical but that's the way the system is.
As I said it's not your fault it is this way, but it's not a bad thing to make the system work for you, this is a democracy that's what you're supposed to do. It's all about looking out for yourself. There are loopholes and hidden benefits everywhere, look for them and use them.
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reader, anonymous, writes (23 August 2010): Why do you feel guilty? You can pretty much get into any course you want once you hit 23 as a mature student. So there's nothing unfair about you getting your course and others not.
I'm a mature student doing a course I didn't have enough points for when I did my Leaving Cert. I also get paid the full dole in the form of back to education allowance, €200 a week with €500 at the start of each year and I get €7000 a year from the maintenance grant. I also get %33 of my rent paid for me too.
Look it's not a competition, it's your education forget about everyone else. The system is the way it is and everyone has the same opportunities, if you can work the system to benefit you then do that. If others don't then that's their problem, not yours. We have to do what's best for ourselves and we have to find ways of making the system work for us. That's how it is and that's what we all do.
It's not our fault that the system is the way it is, they now made it so that you can only have either the grant or btea, I started college the year before this was introduced so I still get both. I don't feel guilty for one second.
I also don't feel guilty that people just leaving school might not get the course they wanted because they don't have enough points. Nor do I feel guilty that they can't get back to education.I didn't make the system but I definitely will get any benefits I can legally get from it.
Any advantage I can get to move ahead I will take.
Do what you have to do to make sure you have the life you want to have, let other people worry about their lives.
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