"Well, the world needs ditch-diggers too!"
Posted on 06/12/2017 6:26:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Saturday “not everyone is college material” while urging for workforce development courses to be made available at technical colleges.
“Not everyone is college material,” Conway told host Jeanine Pirro on Fox’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine.” “Not everyone has to graduate from a four year college with a mountain of debt and very few prospects.”
Conway pointed to a trip President Trump and his daughter and special counselor Ivanka Trump will be making to Wisconsin for ‘Workforce Development Week.’ There, the president will visit a technical college along with Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta.
“They’ll be going there to talk at a technical college and really see what’s going on there and get some best practices as Ivanka’s been doing for these roundtables and these listening sessions,” Conway told Pirro.
“This involvement in workforce development means that if people want a vocational educational — technical educational — skills certificate they should have access to that,” she added.
Conway said skills-certificate programs that make people "employable" need to be valued in the U.S.
“People are saying, ‘Look, if you are in a skills-certificate program, you can graduate and be employable — welders, carpenters, plumbers, hair dressers.' We need to value that. We need to value that in our country and Ivanka Trump and her father will be out there doing that," Conway said.
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She is correct. The sooner we accept that the better.
In my town, such talk will be considered herasey. And the kids march off to college for four years. And they become an indebted sub class who will never be able to buy a home in the town they grew up in.
It really is a shame. These people talk about “following” your dream. But if that dream is working with your hands or going into the service...then they will be battered until they comply.
He is already making $15.00 an hour as an apprentice and is loving it.
A four year indoctrination program isn’t right for everyone’s career.
Republicans need to learn that there are phrases (like this one) that have been interpreted as insulting and then stop using them. The MSM will never print the details of the story, only the headline. Get wise, Republicans!
I’d like to know why so many American businesses say American workers aren’t qualified for their jobs, but people from India and Thailand are........
Poor phrasing, but a lot of the “not college material” are more valuable to society than endless seas of snowflakes who have been to brainwashing school which removed any residual ability to think as opposed to blindly following Leftist dictates.
Poor phrasing, but a lot of the “not college material” are more valuable to society than endless seas of snowflakes who have been to brainwashing school which removed any residual ability to think as opposed to blindly following Leftist dictates.
Not “college material” sounds rather rude as it implies kids that aren’t smart enough to succeed in college rather than they don’t have the interest or would be better off somewhere else. But I agree with her substantive point.
I don’t have anything against getting a degree but these kids nowadays think that is a guarantee of employment. Got a cousin that got a degree and had trouble finding the position he was looking for, he said the heck with that, went to truck driving school and now makes plenty of $$ being an over the road trucker.
"Well, the world needs ditch-diggers too!"
She is correct. And by the way, public education isn’t that great. High school kids in America aren’t competitive with other kids the same age in some other countries.
College is high school with ashtrays.
There are exceptions, of course.
Most college instructors are not college material.
Tell that to middle school principals and bureaucrats, maybe even elementary school. They start very early indoctrinating kids that they HAVE TO go to college.
Excellent. Thanks Kelly Ann.
My son, who is very smart but not the academic type is planning a career in the skilled trades. Many of his friends are doing the same. Hopefully the college bubble is bursting.
The education establishment has been lying for generations that the only way to succeed is college.
I vehemently disagree and have for a long time. We need plumbers welders and mechanics far more than we need lawyers, accountants and doctors. We have no need at all for Women’s studies, African studies, philosophy and much of the other trash degrees that come out of colleges these days.
My other son is studying aerospace engineering. Yep, you need college for that one and thus, I support it. Going to college and getting $100K in debt for the experience? Nope.
Tell that to middle school principals and bureaucrats, maybe even elementary school. They start very early indoctrinating kids that they HAVE TO go to college.
Pretty clear it's really not about qualifications but wage suppression.
For example, what kind of "college material" does one need to major in "gender studies"?
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