#2: As far as I know, all bank accounts of people under the age of 18 HAVE to be joint with their parents...which means the parents can do with the money as they please.

That is ****** up! Go to their house, take the tv and both of their wallets saying it rightfully belongs to you anyways. Then yell at them until they feel extremely ashamed of what they did!

First of all, depending on where you live you can have your own savings account without your parents. I was given one as a birth present from the bank my mother worked at and still have it. Secondly, you can be under 18 and still go to college. I was 17 when I first went, finished my first semester and went home for christmas before I even turned 18. Also 10K makes a significant dent in helping a person go to college. It cuts back in how much you have to ask for in loans, decreasing your debt load and the amount in interest you have to pay back later on, even the amount you might have to work to pay to get through college. For the OP's parents to decide that a t.v. and a pool is more important than a higher education for their child is reprehensible. If that money was specifically set aside for an education fund, no matter who paid into it, it should have been used as that, that is a future investment. Many of my friends have damaged relationships with their parents because their parents decided to just take such promised funds and buy something for themselves instead. My friends were left struggling to try to go to school for years, working shitty jobs for little pay and wondering why their parents turned into such assholes.

That is SO not okay. Sue their asses. I can't BELIEVE that.

Omfg I would go to there house take a shit in the pool and break the HDTV

Report them to the police. This is theft.

"student loan is how just about everyone that isn't a spoiled American brat or upper class rich snob pays for their higher education.." Absolute, utter BS. I'm a senior in university who has never taken a loan and nor do I plan on taking a loan. How do I pay for my living expenses, car etc.? I WORK. Yes, I work and study. Part-time during the semesters, full-time over the summers. I come from a lower middle class family so I have very little (if any) help from my parents. Yes, financial aid does help me but it can only help so much. I also apply for all the scholarships I can so I need to keep my GPA up. You might not be familiar with the concept "hard work". Not all of us go to college to party 24/7.

I would murder them.

I hope you guys all realize that you can't even independently have your own bank account until you're 19. If the OP is still in college, there's a good chance he/she hasn't hit that age yet or has hit it pretty recently and didn't immediately say "OKAY MOM AND DAD TAKE YOUR NAMES OFF MY ACCOUNT PLZ"

for all those retards saying you deserve it for letting them have access. How the **** is he supposed to anticipate that his PARENTS will steal his money???? Maybe it was open to them just in case they felt like putting money in it occasionally. You people are stupid.