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course selections. Online instruction
can delivered and utilized by students
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can
take a class anywhere, anytime.

The challenge, and dare I say the
Because you deserve qqualified, llocal representation decisions young people make about
when managing life’s important issues. furthering their education will begin in
the 9th and 10th grade. Public schools
need to give full and total access to all
? ESTATE PLANNING college level instruction so a high school
? RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL 300 Market Street graduate can leverage a high school
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REAL ESTATE AND SETTLEMENTS Denton, Maryland diploma with earned college credits.
? LLC FORMATION & BUSINESS LAW 21629 Higher Education will have to adjust by
? MUNICIPAL & ENVIRONMENTAL LAW increasing access to college level classes
? GENERAL LEGAL COUNSEL 410.310.1774 to those who will not be living in their
dorms, eating their food, and sitting at
Our attorney, Patrick Thomas, and our Settlement shayman@mlg-lawyers.com desks in their classrooms. Cutting off
Agent, Sandy Hayman, are available to travel to your www.mlg-lawyers.com or in the best case reducing the income
preferred location. stream of more traditional on campus
students.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not advocating
for an end to an on campus 4-year
experience. There is still a great need
for young people to graduate from high
school and continue their education on

campus. The data supports that those
who do achieve the goal of getting a
degree in a timely fashion find more
satisfaction and value in doing so. But
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they must look at all options before
THE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY making that decision.

AT MARTIN’S HOUSE & BARN If making the commitment to go to
college, you must make the commitment
(This is our new name, was previously Saint Martin’s Barn)
to finish. College dropouts account for

Drive-Thru Pantry and Thrift Store Hours: 63% of defaulted student loans. First
generation college students are 2.7 times
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more likely to default on student loans.
8:30 am - 11:30 am 8:30 am - 11:30 am
How you pay for college is critical. Th e
Wednesday 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Wednesday 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm more you borrow the more you must pay
back. And if you dropout without getting
Thrift Store is also open First Saturdays 8 am-Noon
the degree you not only have the debt
FOOD ASSISTANCE: you also do not have the degree that will

afford you more income to pay the debt.
PLEASE CALL OUR BARN MANAGER
AT 410.634.2537 EXT. 111 To quote Mark Krantrowitz whom I
derive information from this article, “we
RENT & UTILITIES ASSISTANCE: do not have a student loan problem, we
have a college completion problem”.
PLEASE CALL OUR HOUSING & SUPPORT SERVICES
COORDINATOR AT 410-634-2537 EXT. 105 If you would like to see more data
regarding student loans and default
All staff at Martin’s House & Barn are following CDC guidelines
information Google Mark Krantrowwitz,
for social distancing and COVID prevention, including daily
article dated 7/23/20.
temperature checks and masking.
We ask that clients also please wear a mask and maintain
distance of six feet when staff bring the food to the vehicle.

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