[Boomer]

I wonder if there will ever be colleges that wake up and provide a full college experience with vocational certification. They do it for business, teaching, and medicine, why not plumbing (etc)?

I don't think they will. They should slim down the course requirements and teach just the courses a person needs for those professional jobs they do train for but trade schools and apprentice programs are better suited to handle blue collar training IMHO.

Of course their argument is they teach students how to think (leftist) so all the other courses not involved with training for a chosen field is to graduate a more rounded student rather than a field focused student. Funny how so many students under this type of teaching become radicalized commie activists...

[grania]

Back in 1963, I graduated from high school. It was from an area that still remembered its manufacturing and farming roots. My folks didn't have HS diplomas, which was no big deal when they grew up during the Depression.

They would not let me go to college unless I had a job skill. And they insisted I be qualified to "do something" with that College Diploma!

Today, so many students never held a real, work hard, minimum wage job in HS or College. They're too busy doing "public service" work for the good of the community and cutesy thing to stuff their college application.

I must have read too much Ayn Rand as a child. If I provide a necessary service, I expect to be paid. Do our youth even read Ayn Rand anymore? Or The Ugly American?

End of Rant.