NFL Player Braylon Edwards Sends 100 Students To College!!(Swipe)

By Yannique Benitez

New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards is easing the burden of 100 Cleveland, OH high school students and fulfilling his promise to pay for their way through college, a promise valued at $1 million.

The Jets player made the promise in 2008, when he told the students he would pay for them to attend any college of their choice if they completed 15 hours of community service and maintained at least a 2.5 GPA while in school.

The students fulfilled their end of the bargain, and Edwards is putting his money where is mouth is and sending each student to the college of his/her choice on his own dime, according to Aol Sporting News. Edwards tweeted over the weekend: “As the 2nd most hated man in Clev & a man of my word, today I will honor a promise made to 100 students in Cleveland years ago. The last of my Advance 100 students will graduate from my program and head off to college on scholarships that I will provide them with. Guys, enjoy and embrace your new beginnings and remember your promise to me, to reach back & help someone else along the way.”

Edwards was a first round draft pick for the Cleveland Browns in 2005, and was traded to the Jets in 2009.

Should You Go To College???

We have seen the housing bubble burst, we saw the collapse of Wall Street and our banking system, now we need to look at the problems facing students who accumulate debts. With the rising costs of tuition at our universities and colleges, many students leave school with debt that equals a small house.

Too many of our students leave school over $100,000 in debt, looking for a job that will hopefully pay them 30,000 a year. Something doesn’t add up, and as you know if it doesn’t make dollars it don’t make sense! What should a young person do? The question is easy if they are in a position to get a scholarship, but how about the millions of students who don’t have that option? Should they pass up a 4 year college and go another route? Should they head to the armed forces so that their college years can be paid for down the road? Or should they just head to school and get ready to in a lifetime of debt before they reach their 25th Born Day?

Black Voices posted some info on how African-American students lead Whites and Hispanics in the amount of debt they accumulate while in school. This article gives you something to consider the next time you tell a young person to head to school.

Blacks Accumulating More Student Loan Debt than Whites or Hispanics

Over all, the analysis — based on data from 2007–2008 graduates in the “National Postsecondary Student Aid Study” — revealed that about two-thirds of all those who received a bachelor’s degree graduated with some amount of loan debt.

About 25 percent of all college-degree recipients graduated with at least $24,600 in debt, and 10 percent graduated with at least $39,300, says the report.