I completely agree that college is not for everyone.
HOWEVER, with a complete drought of technical and vocational schools, where else can these kids go out of high school?
My brother is a tradesman and does good work, but he has no formal education; all of his training is on-the-job. Because of this (and the fact he doesn’t speak Spanish), he can’t get a job that requires certifications or formal training.
Until we can fix the state of trade schools in this country, we’re going to have generations of high school graduates who are left in limbo post-secondary.
There is no article at your link, just a title and a couple comments.
Colleges have deteriorated into big bucks con games.
If you want to have a degree - buy one!
If you want to learn something useful - get some real-world experience before deciding what your passion is.
For medicine, science and engineering - hospitals, labs and architectural firms should institute ‘subsidized’ training centers/schools and only accept the best applicants as apprentices - and expel those who don’t measure up.
College for everyone (or even college as a necessity for SOME) ALMOST made sense when there were jobs waiting for graduates.
At this point, the MORON in the WH ought to focus on JOBS so that putting ‘college’ (BY NOW the replacement for an education which did NOT take place in K-12) within the reach of everyone with a pulse.
I work at a university... there are people walking around here who can barely speak properly and cannot figure out how the elevator works, calling themselves ‘students’
” Some entitled punk waving a “Debt Is Slavery!” sign “
Who probably had to get help to spell the big words...
I don’t know how many of you have experienced “disturbing a hen house” but it was EXACTLY like that when I said, at a baby shower with mostly libs and a lot of school teachers in attendance - “college isn’t for everyone, you know”.