POST: Teacher forgiveness is not fair to the hard-working adult

I too feel victim to this unfair federal forgiveness
program. I graduated in 1996 and became a teacher in an at-
risk school. I was a hard-working adult student paying my
way through full time school with student loans and part
time jobs. I did not have parents to help me. after
meeting every requirement except one (my loans were not
all paid off by 1998. Are they crazy I just started
working and never missed a student loan payment and they
denied me! I work with the most challeging populations and
I still owe 12,000 and have been paying this bloody loan
since 1996. I feel the feds favor the young student with
help from their parents. who can pay a loan back that
fast? I agree this others who stated that a petition and
some letters need to be written to push the date back. I
do not feel i will ever be able to pay this back. Now I
have a mortage, family and other expenses not to mention i
paid for two Master's Degrees and a Post Professional Dip
in administration all out of pocket since 98 because I
refused to take out anymore loans. something needs to be
done about this because it is totally unfair to us hard-
work self-sufficient teachers who where not given a free
ride.