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- Our kids are ages 5 to 16 and all attend public school.
- My husband is a public school teacher and I'm a freelancer, so we don't have a way to pay for college.
- We are helping them in other ways so we can give them the best start to their lives.
My husband and I have five children, ages 5 to 16, and we have no plans to pay for our kids' college educations, primarily because we simply can't afford it.