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To: GovernmentShrinker
"At least half of the traditional age students currently in college don't belong there"

I agree completely. There's this notion these days that every single kid is "college material", but that's just not so. And of course every kid who makes it through college (not very hard these days)immediately sees himself as "above" all kinds of jobs.

Hence our "need" for illegal immigrants to do all those jobs Americans "just won't do".

A bachelors degree may be a legitimate prerequisite for a variety of professions - but not all of them.

More people would be better served by various trade schools, apprenticeships, targeted training, etc...
80 posted on 08/02/2005 10:25:30 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: Pessimist

And a lot of people should postpone college education until they are in their 30s. This would be a much more popular approach if it weren't for the strings attached to many federal and state student loan programs that require full-time or at least half time student status, and also require being in a degree program and making satisfactory progress (as defined by the college) towards the degree. This rules out financial aid for the busy parent who wants to take one course at a time, changing schools from semester to semester according to where a desired course is offered on a workable schedule. It also empowers college administrations to require students to take worthless indoctrination courses in order to fulfill distribution requirements in things like "social justice" and "gender issues". Refuse to take this garbage, and then you're not making "satisfactory progress toward a degree" and you lose your financial aid.


100 posted on 08/02/2005 10:48:58 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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