It is important for young people to find “careers.” There are lots of college degrees that can lead to a career. There are also lots of trade schools, apprenticeships, and self education that can lead to a career.
It is also important to understand that many college degrees, some trade schools, and learning will not lead to a viable degree.
Years ago, in Charlotte, I was at a hair salon and was talking to my stylist. She actually took cosmetology courses at her high school in her senior year!!! Nine months of classes- which saved her thousands of dollars in tuition at a cosmetology school and she was able to get employment immediately. She said that landscaping courses and architecture courses were also offered.
High schoolers would be able to walk off the stage at graduation and directly into employment. Can you even imagine teenagers and young adults in the prime of their lives starting life without the burden of useless college courses and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt???
4+ years of tuition, housing and a loss of your youth is too big of a price to pay for people who would be better suited and happier in a trade instead of a desk job. So many college students NEVER are able to use the worthless degrees that give them nothing but a millstone around their necks. Millstones that FOREVER destroy their credit and prevent them from purchasing a car, a home and other luxuries. Many are prevented from getting a good job, apartment and have the fear of creditors catching up to them.
I would rather my taxes pay for this than the crap they are pushing on children now.