Posted on 07/30/2017 12:22:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I am a strong supporter of vocational school. Cost was minimal. I studied electronics and never had a day that I wasn’t employed. Made a darn good living. Some of the private schools such as culinary and art schools saddle students with $thousands in school loans. Most with culinary degrees start at $8-10 per hour. Hardly worth it for most.
The military charges nothing and pays you along with room & board.
I repeated those exact words in Philly to no avail. Deaf ears it was, oh we don’t have the money.
Been there done that, but it was too hard to find a job as a tailgunner on a bread truck. But I did take advantage of the GI Bill.
They actually tore out shop machinery from classrooms and threw it away in NYC, to convert those classrooms into academic ones. My father, a draftsman, would have cried to see that. All those good paying and necessary jobs stunted in infancy by a bunch of black grifters looking to stuff their own pockets by playing on libtard white guilt. So, they already had the equipment and threw it away. And, how many MILLIONS of dollars have they wasted since on unproven and/or failed schemes like Commie Core, garbage software they attempt to substitute for classes, using uncertified teachers while they throw out veteran teachers wholesale, etc. They could have furnished many rooms of vo-ed equipment for those funds. Do these acts sound like those of people genuinely interested in the welfare of students and the society they will occupy? No. They are using the students as social justice pawns, and that's their only use to these libtards.
Bkmrk.
“Some of these vocational schools charge $30K+”
Commercial vocational schools should be avoided universally. There is no ROI in paying this kind of money for a trade vocation of any kind. Better choices: military, union apprenticeship, public vocational school. If these choices are not viable, getting hired by a company delivering trade services so you can learn on the job seems the next best route. There are too many bad stories out there about student loan debt to consider it.
Oh yeah, the schooling was very intense. Mt. Ida here in MA. She didn’t come up for air for two years.
[Some of these vocational schools charge $30K+]
I guess I got a deal in 1983. $6500.00 for 1560 hrs. The best school experiences I ever had.
First section teacher taught us electrical theory out of the Air Force manual.
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