A father who sacrificed his savings and his health to pay for his son to graduate from college debt-free said he feels "marginalized" amid the growing push for student loan forgiveness. "I think we should pay our debts," Daniel French, a Petco store manager, told Fox News Digital. "The debt I paid was with my body, and I sacrificed my retirement.
So he was surprised when his teenage son, Nathan French, said he wanted to attend college. "I had never thought about it before," the elder French said. "And then I started thinking ‘how am I going to pay for this?’" Having known people who spent their lives crippled with student loan debt, French made a promise to his son that he would pay for his college.
In total, French estimated he spent around $120,000 on his son’s college over that time period. He blamed his three spinal surgeries in recent years on the toll his efforts have taken on his body. "I don't foresee having to do any extra work and things from now on to help him, which is good because I'm pretty much worn out," French told Fox News Digital.