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HELP-Exorbitant Student Loans

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My daughter, Karen Atwood, has over $95,000 in student loans, created since she was 18 because I (her mom) was unable to pay for her education as a single, working mom on a $15,000 a yr. salary. Currently, she is working on her PHD while working full time for Florida Fish and Wildlife, teaching two classes in Environmental Sciences at night, taking two classes two other nights for her PHD, Vice-President at Florida Parrot Rescue, all while raising 4 beautiful daughters. She is an extremely hard-working person, even with terrible back problems which may end up putting her in a wheelchair.

If you know her, you know she is a no-nonsense mother, an expert in the Red Tide at FFW, an in-demand professor at the University of Tampa,  a dedicated student (for her PHD) of the environment at University of South Florida, and an avid animal lover, even going so far as to running into traffic on I75 to save a kitten throw out a window (the local TV station reported on it when it happened).

These loans come due in the spring, and not only is the government continuing to charge her 6% interest but will be demanding almost HALF of her current paycheck as payment and will , most likely, garnish her wages. These funds will go towards paying off her student loans. If she is unable to get help towards these loans, she may just have to quit teaching. This would be a loss to society as she is a wonderful professor and her classes are always in demand. Students tell her the information about the environment she teaches makes them understand climate change and become better-informed environmentalists.

Any help would be appreciated, and I will be researching any and all other means to help pay these loans off. If you know of any, please let me know. 

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Lynn Chapin
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Bakersville, NC
Karen Atwood
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