Posted on 03/21/2019 6:55:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
“I think culturally, for a long time we have created and perpetuated the narrative that there is one pathway to achieving the American dream and its four-year university,” Ms. Trump said in a recent interview.
Trump goes on:
That has been instilled into American students, it’s often American parents that feel that is the only viable path. So you have kids going into school racking up enormous amounts of student debt that they’ll often take decades if there ever able to pay it off without a skill, if they ultimately graduate.
So I think opening up the prism and saying there are many different pathways. It depends what you want in your life and taking the stigma away from those who choose alternative pathways who choose technical schools, vocational education. At the end of the day, it’s about connecting workers with their passion, with their jobs. There’s very little opportunity for somebody who wants to the vocational route, the technical route because all the money pushes you into a four-year college system.
After ten years, nearly one-third of college graduates wind up in a job that does not require a college degree, the Wall Street Journal reports.
That should not be surprising. It demonstrates that the supply of college graduates has outpaced demand, which is exactly what you would expect would happen when ample subsidies and societal pressure are applied to increase college attendance. When, as Ms. Trump put it, “all the money pushes you into a four-year college system.”
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Four year college is ok. Paying for it with government guaranteed loans is not.
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for many, 4 year college is okay.... if they are studying something useful like nursing or engineering or several more.......
or if they are studying almost anything they enjoy and wish to learn about.. such as in the ‘liberal arts’ or ‘humanities’.. without expecting those economically-irrelevant degrees to get them any jobs beyond, say, flipping burgers (which is being automated anyway)
people who take a bunch of fluff classes... cannot expect to be offered high paid jobs
its just that simple
if i were a banker, I would be HAPPY to give out student loans, but Realistically....I would certainly look at the students’ majors
College is not for everyone....I’ll clear $90K this year......with a high school diploma.....skilled trades are a wonderful thing
"Full time college" students receive breaks denied to vocational school students: Prior to the ACA they could stay on their parents' health insurance; and receive discounts on auto insurance.
Someone call Mike Rowe.
Companies should post courses required by the company..
Students can review many of the companies and take the required courses
Be it one year or four...
Most kids are taking courses that will not help them at all...
I think large corporations should bring back ..work and night school and trade school...
In the 1950s GE had this type of system...you worked and took the courses they wanted at local colleges...and if you passed they paid for it..
Bill Gates AND Steve Jobs never graduated college these kids are being indoctrinated PERIOD!!
The loans are a big hook that have allowed the schools to hike their costs to astronomical rates...and then they indoctrinate your kid and the poor graduate is exactly that..poor and looking for a government bailout by the very system that hooked them.
How many kids want their fellow citizens to pay off their ripoff loans by schools that were enabled by the government. What a scam.
Met a guy the other day who said the interest on his loan is $100/month. He realizes he was had and is getting a job at Boeing in the manufacturing section because he’s figured out he’ll have a better life. Smart guy!
Generally, I agree with her. I wish she would specify all Government subsidized, guaranteed and controlled loans.
Spot on topic!
I hope she runs with it!!!!
Never accepted the grant nor hardship provision in Stanford. I graduated 2007 and even back in 2015, I had classmates who were still paying for their degrees. Some were worthless. All I did was do odd jobs for cash such as DJ for a strip club etc, managed the account for a madam, ran underground poker clubs at the dorm etc. Millenials are effing weak and stupid..
Good luck with that.
Almost every large company HR dept is run by feminists.
Not only is she beautiful
But she is right
Focus on college just because it is college and everyone should go into 100K+ debt so they can do keg stands is stupid.
People going for a career like nursing, engineering, etc, smart. Generally they will pay off their college debts with their career.
However I think too many people go because they think they have to. Those people usually end up dropping out anyways and have big debts and no job prospects.
Invest more into trade and vocational schools
I believe we should eliminate the 11 and 12 grade in High school, big waste of time, and start junior college for 11 and 12 for college bound students, trade schools for skilled labor bound students and job training for everyone else. I would rather see students leave “high school” with something more useful then a high school diploma, a 2 year degree or credits to 4 year college, 2 years in a trade school starting an apprentice program aka a first job, or job training to strait to work. That is just my opinion.
The first time I’ve agreed with Ivanker ...
agree
This is a tough one because if the college/university is good, the learning experience and college life experience can prove to be invaluable.
Many of our life-long friends were made on the college campus.
We learn to think for ourselves and open our eyes to alternative viewpoints and develop a healthy skepticism.
Sadly, most of today’s institutions of higher learning have become little more than indoctrination centers, with safe spaces and censorship for the spoiled brats that shouldn’t be there anyway. They offer worthless degrees that only serve to line their pockets and ultimately pick ours.
It is good that Ivanka brings this issue out for discussion and reflection. It is a real problem.
Government approved loans for approved courses in math and sciences is easy to figure out. It’s like EBT cards. Confine the purchases to rice and beans-a complete protein. The end result would a major decline in obesity, alcoholism and a big rise in global warming.
The loans are a big hook that have allowed the schools to hike their costs to astronomical rates...and then they indoctrinate your kid and the poor graduate is exactly that..poor and looking for a government bailout by the very system that hooked them.
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Agreed. And all that money is used to subsidize all the liberals who work at the universities. Doesn’t some school in Michigan have over 100 highly paid diversity officers?
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