That is true. It should be mentioned...
I have a daughter that is finishing up homeschool high school. She has a creative bent, and has been training for ballet for years. She has run into the “not anorexic enough” glass ceiling and has been training with a modern dance company. Everyone in that company, members, trainees to apprentices, are all college graduates.
She knows full well that we won’t be paying for a dance degree. And no student loans. I figure that she can go to the local JC and get her GE courses done while she decides what she might want to do.
Her generation will be severely impacted with costs for an education that will NOT be matched with a reasonable job market to pay those loans back.
IT IS A CRIME WHAT THE LEFT HAS DONE TO EDUCATION.
Interesting.
There is no compelling reason I can think of that a dance troupe member would have to have a college degree.
We are long past time for a rational, dispassionate re-thinking of our entire education system, from top to bottom.
Thank you! That's the short-and-sweet of it. College is not merely "many times more expensive" than it used to be, and less academically enriched; it's also going to be much harder to pay for later, because jobs are vanishing. The odds have gotten longer than people realize.
I know many good people, intelligent parents, who simply won't think critically about college. It's like an article of faith. The kids have to go to college. I've tried to tell them it's a waste, and a crime (the crime I refer to being FRAUD), but they just don't absorb it. One friend of mine with many kids has told me that a school geared toward getting its graduates into trade schools is thereby inferior, while a school geared toward getting its grads into college is thereby superior. I daresay this is a common error nowadays. (In any case, all public schools stink IMO.)