HELLO, I am a Post Bacalaureat student with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Criminal Justice. I raised my family four children but I am now divorced and single. I have maxed out my student loan borrowing power at the undergraduate level and until accepted into a Graduate program I cannot take out any more loans. My education has been a struggle of children, balancing jobs and trying to save my marriage thereby my GPA is not good enough to qualify for a Masters in Teaching Program at Missouri State University. I need to take courses for a semester and pay my own tuition. I currently have been forced to pay old Health Fees to this same university for the time w hen I was sick in 1996. This eight hundred dollars had to be paid before I could be allowed to register for classes. I registered for courses and I do not know how I will pay my tuition of two thousand dollars. I live in Public Housing but have low rent by the time I buy food and pay my monthly espenses there is not much left of the social security disability Irecieve from the government (five-hundred and sixty-nine dollars per month.) I want to teach Art and Social Studies. I pay tuition to Drury University where I completed my last twelve units of my Bachelors Degree in 2003 and I did not qualify for a student loan then either so I am over six thousand dollars in debt to them for which I pay fifty dollars a month. I owe the government over 40,000 thousand dollars for my education this far which compounded interest continues all the while I am out of work or school. yet at my age (56)cannot find a job. I need to complete my education and be ready to start a career. I am between a rock and a hard place and if you write to me please use this in the subject matter. If this can lead to any help I would be grateful. I am not a smoker, or a drinker and do not use any illegal drugs. I was injured in 2000 by a man who claimed to want to help me and got a broken leg instead of any help. I still have a bad knee which leaves me out of some jobs requiring a lot of physical labor. I was planning to go to law school and run for Congress of htis country. I thought I could make a difference. As a social studies/art teacher I can do so one student at a time. Any help offered would be greatly appreciated. my email is rianarings@hotmail.com and my home phone is 417 862-1731. I am not asking for a hand out . Just some help. I have tried to get out of this mess and jsut cannot find a job. In this state it is said that it is not what you know but whom you know that matters. All donations will be viewed as money i will use in the future to help some one else when I get myslef straightened out. Thanks for listening at any rate. I pray every night for an answer to this dilema. Sincerely, Mary L. Mayfield 421 W. Madison Street Apt 403, Springfield, Missouri. P.S. I am the only one in my family who has earned this much education for six generations. I will provide more info if you need I do have good references from my former schools.
