College hasn’t been oversold — just worthless degrees in fields of study where graduates are only qualified to be “baristas” at Star Bucks.
Time to bring back the trade school track in high school. Many students would be better off learning a vocational skill versus “Poly Sci” or “Women’s Studies”.
Children need a dose of reality, selling them this skies the limit crud, only to have them discover the truth at 20 destroys them.
It has been oversold.
Three decades ago, the higher education lobby threw everything they had into getting the dissalowance of the use of testing as sole criteria for hiring and promotion within private industry. This was sold as a civil rights issue, but the reality is that even that long ago the tools had been developed to impart the same skills and breadth of knowledge the universities impart...much cheaper and without having to move to a school town to do it.
I am a supporter of trade schools, two year colleges with basic training programs and apprenticeships to skilled craftsmen! I work with a major client who has said that they will lose their ability to purchase certain hand crafted wood pieces they use in their attractions because the one guy who does this is retiring and said he couldn’t find a “youngster” interested in learning his craft! Imagine, a ready made business for a young person who would just commit to learning the craft as an apprentice.