The Germans shunt many of those folks to trade school and apprenticeships. Seems to work. Ever met a poor plumber? Or they could go into sales and make more than most professionals, if they work hard.
I agree. The DemocRATS are idiots. College IS NOT for everybody. Many people have no business being there. All Barry wants is to provide two more years of programming for the young skulls full of mush by the DNC’s Marxist programmers.
Trades has always been a decent living, and something that isn’t easily outsourced to the third world.
But these days most youts are really honed in on a white collar career mentality - at least the ones who don’t immediately join the entitlement army out of hs.
I think it’s because they’re playing computer based games instead of doing hands-on stuff.
The problem with that system is that it locks people into rigid tracks based off of few test scores. If your talents go one direction but your test score falls one point on the wrong side, forget about it. While one does get to catch up, but not without great amounts of time and pressure not to do so.
In the US system, honors tracks generally consider performance over time as admission criteria. This provides a failsafe against a bad measurement taken at a given time (whether good or bad).
As for the trades path in the US, how well is that being sold as a line of good skilled work with upward career development opportunity as opposed to being seen as choice of reluctance with not much advancement? Doing that well would be more preferable than relying on the government to shunt people over.
You know, if people went to trade school and worked during their twenties, then deciding on university in their thirties I believe most universities would revert to their original purpose and would weed out those who go husband hunting and it would weed out those who go just to extend their high school glory years.