Consider the result of American kids not going to college, all those jobs and industries will be staffed instead by H1B and foreign kids taught that the way to advance is by getting a good education.
Personally, I'm the only one of 18 full, half, and step siblings in my family to get a college degree. My single most important goal is to see that 100% of my kids go to and graduate from college.
I got an Air Force job and security clearance. I parlayed that into a job with a defense contractor and over a 30 year career made far more than my sister the RN.
Now I have a pension and she does not.
The majority of my generation of my extended family ended up in medical careers, with the major exceptions of myself, my cousin the State Department weinie (the exception in the dept, very conservative) and my cousin the postal worker.
Yes, we are all boomers.