Posted on 06/19/2021 7:00:05 AM PDT by karpov
Hundreds of thousands of students who graduated from high school last spring veered off the path to higher education, diverted by the pandemic. Now high schools and colleges are trying to set them back on track.
Identifying and contacting those former students, and selling them on the benefits of going to college, can be a daunting task: Some moved, lost access to their high-school email networks, or got full-time jobs and don’t want to give up their income. And the longer they are away from formal education, counselors warn, the harder it could be to bring them into the fold.
Roughly 727,000 fewer students enrolled in undergraduate programs this spring compared with the same time last year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse, which collects student data from around the country. The year-over-year declines were nearly as steep in the fall term.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data show the share of new high-school graduates who enrolled in college last fall was the lowest it has been in 20 years, just shy of 63%. And many others who started school in the fall quickly withdrew, say college officials.
“The stakes are huge,” said Lee Gray, senior director of education and advocacy at the Oasis Center, a Nashville-based nonprofit with a range of youth services. “If we don’t do our jobs to the point of exhaustion, just to have a conversation about where they’re at and where they want to go, and is education still a part of their plan, it’s going to be a huge failure.”
Even in a normal year, students can disappear from the pipeline, a phenomenon known as summer melt. Sometimes they get off a waiting list at another school. More often, they miss a deadline and panic, or just settle into the workforce.
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The indoctrination and easy money pipelines are leaking!!! Even small leaks allow toxins to escape that are dangerous to the agenda. Get some duct tape on that crack, and now!!
Most of them will be better off.
The guy who owns our plumbing company makes way more than most of the PhDs we know.
And he didn’t go to college.
Great news - American Patriots must crack and then bury the leftist-fascist “higher ed” monopoly. Read about Elite Overproduction.
The plumbing company we use...
We don’t own it.
More’s the pity.
Identifying and contacting those former students, and selling them on the benefits of going to college, can be a daunting task: Some moved, lost access to their high-school email networks, or got full-time jobs and don’t want to give up their income. And the longer they are away from formal education, counselors warn, the harder it could be to bring them into the fold.
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“The fold” being people indebted for life with massive student loan debt.
Higher education is a huge bubble. The trades are where it is and will be for the foreseeable future. Somebody has to service the physical infrastructure and it sure won’t be the screen addict dorks who have no clue what a wrench is.
Life goes on. No one said it must follow the same course
each year. Change is necessary and a learning experience.
Make the most of it, enjoy your freedom and learn as you go.
“Identifying and contacting those former students, and selling them on the benefits of going to college, can be a daunting task: Some moved, lost access to their high-school email networks, or got full-time jobs...”
And some have figured out “college” is a scam.
The world witnessed white punks with skateboards and useless college degrees rioting and playing black Americans for fools.
You can't sell young folks on the idea that they need to get some grind job to keep some dump of a Democrat city afloat while at the same time Democrats in City Hall are supporting arsonists and rioters destroying it.
The world witnessed man-hating feminists with useless college degrees blame everyone except themselves for their problems.
Young individuals bypass the Propaganda Media of ABCCBSCNNFOXNBCNPRNYTWAPO and see people online creating all kinds of real tangible things and ask themselves, "why can't I learn to do that?"
Those who sold the lie of the Scamdemic Wuhanic Plague can't walk it back. The message is very clear to young people; "We can screw with any plans you make in order to remove someone like Orange Man Bad." If that's the case, why buy into a long term lie?
Young people have had their eyes open and they're not buying the propaganda that their sheep parents so willingly embraced. The biggest change I see is that this upcoming generation knows they're screwed but at the same time expects real answers to specific questions.
College education needs a hugh adjustment, series. All too many kids go to college that have no business being in college. They don’t have the intelligence to be there. They do not have the preparation to be there. Hence, the big business of college education has created tons of majors and degrees that do nothing but place a massive debt on ignorant and unintelligent kids. They are unable to be productive members of society because they can’t produce anything. They can’t be gainfully employed using their degrees because there is not gainful employment for those degrees.
My son, the Eagle Scout, graduated from high school in 2011, started at the community college and after a couple of courses, came up to me and told me that he just could not see a path for him in college. I told him that in that case, he should get a job, any job, even part-time.
He got a job, part-time, at the local Tractor Supply, at night, throwing feed sacks and stocking shelves. In 6 months he was full-time as a team lead. In 18 months he was an assistant store manager. He went on to become a store manager in several stores to include taking one from bare walls through the soft-opening, wherein, as planned, he turned the keys over to the planned store manager and went on to straighten out two struggling stores.
He has since been a successful manager for two other companies, and will be transitioning out of state to a great management opportunity with another company.
This all without a college degree. He didn’t leave me with a debt that would have required me to still be working, and he didn’t have Marxist smoke blown up his ass.
High Schools need a trades path, not just college prep.
People have been saying that for years, but each year the income gap between those with a college degree and those without keeps growing.
“””And the longer they are away from formal education, counselors warn, the harder it could be to bring them into the fold....””””
This is a major crisis. Thousands of mush-headed 18 year olds will not be indoctrinated in our socialist universities. (sarc)
My son got a full-time job at Walmart.
Unless one is on a STEM track college is a complete waste of time and money. No, it’s a scam.
College has become nothing more than a place to park until a kid figures out what to do. Leveraging this, university administrations rob kids blind of 40% of their future earnings for the next 20+ years of their lives.
College has become nothing more than a wealth redistribution plan to fund the leftist gentry class.
If you read the article, most of these kids were thinking of going to community college to study auto repair or plumbing. This is not what most people think about when they see “college”.
It’s simple. They got into the ‘mean’ world of reality and learned the concept missing in schools today, Return On Investment. And all they hear is ‘student loan forgiveness’ because others before them made a huge mistake.
Ha...I talked my grandson out of last 2 years of college...he didn’t have aNY idea what he wanted to major in...and I didn’t want any more indoctrination going on. He supervises a construction crew now and has been working steadily for years. Screw higher ed..except for legitimate degrees, ie engineering, medical, etc.
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