Lives ‘ripped apart’ by OSAP freeze, Niagara student living in shelter says

I had a good job. I wanted to upgrade. That's why I went back to school at 46 years old. That was scary enough as it is, but it ruined my life. Now I live in An apartment that is covered by the YWCA, thank goodness, with my son so that I can continue school. And then they tell me, no, you can't continue school. Like, I have been through hell for this, and I'm not going to stop fighting until I get the document that I paid for, my graduation certificate. There are innocent students out there that are getting their entire lives ripped apart over this. It's absolutely impossible to pay what the college is asking me to pay per month, $1,579 a month. For the next four months of my education, I can't do that. I have a wife who's on Ontario Disability Support. I work part-time. How do you expect a family that's on disability and a part-time employee to be able to survive in this economy with constant inflation and rising prices? I'm sitting here with a mountain of debt, no diploma to show for it, and Looking at my family situation going, I tried to better us and subsequently put us in a worse off situation than we were three years ago when I started this. I'm withdrawing because I refuse to pay that money. I'm three and a half months away from graduating and I can't even because I have to withdraw because the amount of money that they want us to pay so we can finish off our education, 1467 a month which is just not even doable even having a job and then I'm actually in a placement that's 540 hours that we're supposed to do for free so you want us to pay 1467 a month but you also want us to continue our free placement which is 40 hours a week for three months.