Did you miss the study that came out this week showing that roughly roughly 1/3 of students entering college need remedial courses?
That is a failure of the K-12 education system. Because that system has failed utterly, students are now required to get a costly four year degree that can be achieved by taking spam classes. That is not an education. It does not achieve a better informed or educated citizenry.
If my kid were an average student or one who struggled in class, I would not insist s/he attend a four year college. I would encourage him or her to obtain good vocational training, perhaps combined with classes at a community college. More parents are beginning to do just that.
A student who graduates with a worthless 4-year college degree is not going to get a great job. S/he will be lucky to get a job at all. And if s/he does, it will be a dead-end office job that ultimately will prove boring. SO why pay all that $$$ to the four year school.
The sad thing is that this country is full of colleges and “universities” that confer degrees that are not worth the paper on which they are written.
Compare B.S vs B.A degrees. A whole lot more meaning on the for the B.S.. I’m biased though(B.S. Chemistry)