Amen.
High School students of all races have local community colleges, and poor students can receive a PELL Grant, that never has to be repaid (taxpayer dollars), to learn a trade, or get an Associates Degree.
The Pell Grant is enough to pay the entire cost of classes and books...with the college giving the student ‘a pay out of the balance’. That is enough to pay for transportation for an entire semester in some cases. The Grant pays by semester.
So ANY STUDENT who says I can’t afford to go to college, either hasn’t checked it out, their parents make just a little too much money, or they could give a ‘rat’s rear’ about learning a trade or going to college.
In fact, students with poor grades from HS can take remedial classes in college to get them up to speed, and that is also paid for in the grant. I find it inexcusable that these people say there is no way to get out of the ghetto. If you live in a city over 100,000... any bus service would go by the community college locally, unless it is over ten miles out of town.
Lazy, drugs, or ‘entitlement minded’ keeps most people from getting out of a bad situation. IT IS NOT COLOR. I taught Criminal Justice at the local Community College level for years, and we had plenty of poor blacks attending, who cared about getting a decent job.
Dead on. There are already opportunities. For decades we’ve been told program after program is being created for “opportunities”, yet, we keep being told more program must be created. I thought the last unteen programs corrected the situation?