Posted on 03/19/2019 7:16:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I was eighteen, I won a scholarship to the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. I wanted to go. My dad refused to send me to a "fruit school," as he called it. Years later, after wasting thousands of his dollars by dropping out of ASU (because I didn't go to classa fact I'm not proud of) we had another moment to talk about what went wrong. I asked him again why he didn't want me to go to Roosevelt and he repeated, "That's a school for fruits." I looked at him and said, "Dad, when are you going to realize I am a fruit?" He laughed and nodded a few times and then admitted that I was right. We came to an understanding that day that it's never a good idea to stop your kid from following their path in favor of the one chosen by parents.
That's what I keep coming back to with this college admissions scandal, especially in regards to actress Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade. Olivia was clearly trying to tell the world she didn't belong in college, had no interest in it, and was already set up to be an "influencer" and YouTube celebrity. College would only give her prestige, not a career (which she already had). She was contracted with Sephora for a makeup line, had almost two million followers on YouTube, and had a bright future doing what she appeared to love to do: talk into her camera and put on makeup for strangers. It might not look like much to us, but I bet she was making great money doing it.
You know who else makes great money? Pipefitters. And the apprenticeship program is free.
Plumbers, HVAC workers, contractors, tons of medical techniciansall have jobs that only require certifications. Nursing, dental technician and a million other jobs don't require a four-year degree. Not every kid will enjoy or do well in college and a degree doesn't guarantee a job. What it does guarantee is massive debt if your kid needs a loan. The average college education costs over $100,000 now.
The college admissions scandal seems to be a bunch of blue-blood parents who can't handle their kids not getting into big name schools, regardless of whether their progeny are up to the challenge. This attitude sends the exact wrong message. There's nothing wrong with community college and trades. In fact, we are running low on people who know how to build and fix things. CBS reported a shocking fact that should concern us.
Yeah, but if everybody doesn’t go to college, how will the anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian left indoctrinate so many at their own expense?
And the madness is all subsidized by the Dept. of Education. Spending money and blowing massive student debt-bubbles for the traditional (now solidly leftist) education-industrial complex.
Always bothers me to see people denigrate education, why Americans don't push it, don't insist on kids doing homework, etc. Without education, they put their kids on lower income, lower acheivement path. It is a universal solution to get education, to learn your way out of poverty, yet we have this mindset underway in America to do just the opposite. And the result? Many of our kids will make less than we did, far less.
Doesn't help that we've invited through H1B and other programs, and allowed illegally, tens of millions of people to take our jobs, underbid our work, drive down our wages, close out whole industries from us.
And doesn't help that we don't have apprentice or work-related education.
So many ills.
Reminds me of a joke:
One morning a lawyer awoke to get ready for court that day.
He found that his drains were clogged up and he didn’t have the time to do it himself so he called an emergency plumber.
The plumber quickly arrived and in 15 minutes had the drain flowing freely.
He presented the bill to the lawyer for $500.
“Five hundred dollars! For 15 minutes work? That’s $2000 an hour! I’m a lawyer and I don’t even get that much!” exclaimed the lawyer.
“Yeah, I know,” replied the plumber, “I didn’t get that much when I was a lawyer, either.”....................
What the admission scandal shows is that human nature and behavior despite various facades throughout recorded history remains unchanged.
The question to ask here....are there any anti-capitalist pipe-fitters or HVAC technicians in America today? I don’t think you can find a single one.
I also don’t think you can find any plumbers with anything other than house, credit card or car loan debt. Unless that guy screws up and marries some trophy wife...the typical plumber ought to be able to retire by age 60, and have a decent income in his older years.
How much money was spent on this study?
I could have told them that for less that half whatever they paid.
That pipe fitter flier is probably bogus. You need connections to get into that program of that I am sure, no kid without connections is going to walk in and get the apprenticeship. It is probably law they have to post that.
FWIW, I always got a kick of how the trash guys were as much or more plugged into the grid as Dilbert.
Good post. Skilled tradespeople are often as smart or smarter than the engineers or managers they work with, just differently educated.
Bingo! The Left WANTS everybody going to college because for decades that has served them so well as a captive indoctrination center.
Even Nixon’s plumbers were Capitalists.
Crap, I am thinking about a 2nd career as my 1st comes to a close. Pipefitter looks pretty good.
I thought this was written by another Megan Fox.....
That pipe fitter flier is probably bogus. You need connections to get into that program of that I am sure, no kid without connections is going to walk in and get the apprenticeship. It is probably law they have to post that.
Not true, at least not in the Boston area. You have to pass a test first. Most can’t.
Drug test. And they are only looking for opiates.
It’s probably like truck driving CDLs.
Many want in but few pass the drug screen.
Its probably like truck driving CDLs.
Many want in but few pass the drug screen.
Exactly. I know people who are in the Unions, Electrical, Iron workers, Plumbers etc. They can never fill their apprenticeships because of the drug test. Sad but true.
In today’s world the trades have higher standards than the colleges.
I doubt it. A nobody, even with a clean urine sample, will not get a paid apprenticeship. Clearly a union apprenticeship which they are handed out to family and friends.
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