There is a bit of confusion now that so many people are heading back to school or want to go back to school. Paying for your education is VERY difficult with tuitions being so high in 2010 and many women are looking for grants. There are lots of ads on the Internet saying that you can return to school with a grant. Specifically, women are going online looking for:

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Grants for over 40

Well, you get the idea. Many women are going online hoping to find school grants that are SPECIFICALLY for mothers and single mothers.These women probably know there are school grants for students but they are hoping to find grants that are just for moms or single moms that they might qualify for or ones that might even be easier to qualify for than normal student grants.

The truth is that there are no school grants for single moms or mothers. There just aren’t any that are targeted for those two specific groups.

Why do so many women hope to find such grants that are meant just for them? Again, it is probably because of the speech Barack Obama made last year about his desire for moms to return to school and get their degrees. Whenever a speech like that is made, some people assume things about the speech and interpret it to mean that he is setting up some special Obama school grants just for single moms and women.

After awhile, word spreads and people hear it from other people and so on. Additionally, advertisers for school loans and grants pick up on this and phrase their ads using words that make it sound like grants for single mothers really do exist. They do this to try to get more business.

In the end we have a situation like we have now: women going online everyday searching for Obama grants for single mothers or Obama grants for mothers and nothing like that even exists! There are still the regular Pell grants that women and anyone else can get but nothing just for Moms. As always, if for some reason I am wrong about this please leave a comment and let me know.

But what about men? There are lots of men that are also in the same situation as women and they want to go back to school to get their degrees as well. Now that jobs are so hard to find, if they can’t get a good job, maybe it is the right time for men to also try to return to college and finish their degree.

Obama school grants pretty much is about Pell grants and not much more. As I have spoken about before, there are no special school grants, education grants, or college grants that President Obama has started. Pell grants have gone up a bit so you get a bit more in 2010 than you did in 2009 but that is about it.

Scholarships 4 Dads - you can win a $10,000 scholarship and it is 100% free to enter. There is a drawing each month and Scholarships 4 Dads is BBB accredited. A very simple sign up will get you entered and you can also find information on schools there too.

If you are a mom, there is a drawing for you too. Scholarships 4 Moms is also totally free to enter and there is also a drawing every month. It is also BBB accredited and very easy to enter for your chance to get a free $10,000 education grant scholarship.

It is important to get your college degree if you can and that holds true for both moms and dads, men and women, and single moms and single dads too. An education is something you can always use to help you get a better job and so now might be the right time for you to start looking.

I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately with headers that look just like the one above (without the “not”). Usually they are in my spam folder but occasionally one slips through into the real folder. They seem to lead to different online colleges or some other college placement type website.

Is it true that you can really get $10,000 from Obama or an Obama school grant? Or are these emails just more of the same over the top advertising to get your attention and mislead you? I clicked a link that said “financial aid packages” on one of the sites and this is what I got:

I don’t know where they are coming up with the 10K number…perhaps it just sounds good. The numbers above ($5,350 and $2500) don’t even add up to $10,000.

Obama school turnaround grants have been in the news lately but those are grants that are going to be given to the schools that are successful in well, turning themselves around. They are not grants for individual people like moms who want to go back to school.

Advertisers continue to feed off of and use the public’s perception that there are real and new Obama debt relief grants, Obama back to school grants, Obama grants for moms, and any other kind of Obama government stimulus grants that they are now entitled to and can get. The truth is that there is very little out there for the average person that wasn’t there before Obama got elected.

There are new amounts available for Pell Grants but it is not that much more than before and it hardly keeps pace with inflation. Certainly the increase doesn’t match how much college tuition is going up across the country. Anyone can apply for these school grants and may even be lucky enough to get one. But is Obama just giving away $10,000 for anyone to go back to school like these ads want you to believe? Nope, not even close.

WARNING: If you are looking for grants for moms, back to school grants, or loans for Mom or mothers you won’t find them because they don’t exist. President Obama’s Moms Return To School grants may be hard to get because THERE AREN’T ANY! A search of the Internet did not reveal any information about them.

The reality is that grants for moms are not real and they are a product of clever advertising just to get you interested in grants and loans so someone can try to sell you something else. Pell grants are real, but nothing that is specifically targeted toward Moms or going back to school is real. There just is no such thing!

One thing to note is that the Obama stimulus grants have all gone to big companies, local governments, and state projects so there is little to no extra government money for education grants, school grants, or college grants. The November elections in 2010 were won by the Conservatives and so there will be less money doled out from the government in the next two years. Rebublicans will probably try to stop or slow down spending and this means no more stimulus grants or any other kind of stimulus package from here on out no matter how badly it is needed.

Obama money will be tighter now that the Republicans won in November so there will be fewer opportunities to get money from the government. Back to school stimulus grants would be nice, especially because the cost of school and college is so expensive now. With jobs being lost and people needing to be retrained, they need to learn new skills.

Going back to school to learn a new career is great if you can afford to do it but many can’t. Obama government grants are great for the big corporations but unfortunately there is just not enough financial aid to go around for the little guy.