Posted on 04/17/2014 7:37:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Having a high school diploma isn’t good enough to make it anymore, first lady Michelle Obama warned high school and college students at Howard University.
“No longer is high school the bar. That is not enough in today’s globalizing economy. You have got to go to college, or get some kind of professional training beyond college,” she said Thursday.
It was the first of what is likely to be many more speeches on education as the first family readies for retirement and takes up helping younger Americans, especially blacks get a leg up.
“One of the things that Barack and I are focusing on and will be focusing on for the rest of our lives, quite frankly, is making sure that young people understand the importance of an education. And that means education beyond high school,” she said.
A new Pew Research poll found that there was a big earnings gap between those with a high school degree and those with a college certificate. Pew said that those who only graduated high school earned 62 percent of a college graduate.
At Howard she was promoting the president’s goal of getting back to being the nation with the most college graduates in the world. “It’s called his North Star Goal,” said the first lady. “We were at the top years back, but now we’ve fallen very far behind the rest of the world.”
I was a career counselor for almost 20 years and a recruiter for many more. Send me ANY young person who truly wants a decent job and I’ll find them one within 60 days. I’m serious.
We are talking millions.
I blame public schools, then. High school graduate males were able to support their families without the wife working outside the home not that long ago. I remember it, do you?
I’ll be sure to send this advice to my brother-in-law who employs 160 people, and has never sat in a college classroom.
Yes, I remember a lot despite being only 71. This is not the same country I grew up in. I graduated high school in 1961.
I was born the year before that, but I still remember quite a lot. This is not anything like that country.
It is a country in decline. I don’t envy our children and grandchildren.
Here's what's weird. In Classmates.com for Whitney Young Academic Center, to find a yearbook your choices are:
- 1977 (the year before she supposedly started as a freshman)
- 1982 (the year after she supposedly graduated)
- 1984
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
So all four years she was in high school - somewhere - are unavailable at least at this school even though the year before she started and the year after she graduated are in there. Makes you wonder.
http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/school/Whitney-Young-Academic-Center/20622461?cityId=19
she’s right!
you know how much education she needed for that $375k no-show job she had... once
of course, you could also pose as a beard for a politically connected narcissist ...
All those high school level jobs have been sent to Red China. Those kids have to be kept in school so the don’t enter the workforce and get angry when they can’t find a job. They have to delay starting a family . They have to be burdened with mountains of debt and they have to be thoroughly brainwashed. This is not about education. This is pure social engineering.
African-American Studies. The road to riches.
And ensure ongoing employment for university professors.
Isn’t Michelle the one on tape before the first election who told blacks “stay where you are if you can’t make it to the top. Don’t fall for that middle class trap we need you where you are” (in poverty)? I’m sure it was her.
She should focus in the black dropout rate in high school instead of discussing college. Sort of trying to ice a cake before it is baked.
College is the new brainwashing centers.
In an economy where we rightfully lament the lack of skilled job applicants and wonder what they’re thinking when high school-only employees are dismayed that burger flipping doesn’t pay more, I’m okay with her somewhat unrefined message here.
But highly motivated, personable and intelligent people can always do well, regardless of formal education.
If you ever go to DC and get in a Diamond Cab that company was founded by my GF. He was HS educated Italian immigrant. He was forced to sell Diamond when his corrupt business partner went on a unsuccessful gambling spree. When he died there was very little money in his estate. Sad story.
Somehow I don’t think four years of college would have helped me operate a backhoe any better.
The top tier of students who only have HS diplomas have much more potential than the bottom tier of those who went to college, delayed growing up for a few more years, got hopelessly in debt, and still haven't developed workplace skills. I look around me, and it seems that the smarter business managers are working with their best HS grad employees so they can move up and feel secure in those work environments.
The answer isn't more college. It's more vocational and business-management learning opportunities in HS.
That's true. Walking around with pants that are too big so they fall down together with the baby noochie. It's the "look" for prison rent-a-boys. I don't see the baby noochie much these days.
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