Posted on 03/13/2023 12:01:03 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
The effects of the COVID-related government shutdowns three years ago continue to reverberate. A new report from the Associated Press indicates that many American teens have become disillusioned with college and have opted to skip it in favor of going to trade school or working a job that does not require an undergraduate degree.
Between 2019 and 2022, college enrollment in the U.S. fell 8%, and the decline in college enrollment since 2018 has been the steepest on record, the AP claimed. Though enrollment increased slightly from 2021 to 2022 after most schools returned to in-person classes, the numbers have begun to alarm some lawmakers, college administrators, and researchers. by TaboolaPromoted Links You May Like Average Retirement Savings By Age: Are You Normal? SmartAsset WATCH: Dave Rubin is left SPEECHLESS after Tucker Carlson admits THIS Gronk's Favorite "Dressy" Shoes Feel Like Walking On Clouds Wolf & Shepherd Greg Gutfeld destroys Bill Maher with powerful response for hoping David Koch's death 'was painful' Chrome Users? Don’t Forget To Do This Before Monday guard.io
"It’s quite a dangerous proposition for the strength of our national economy," said Zack Mabel, a researcher at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
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Group of Buffoons who run colleges would fit right in with a Gulliver’s Travels fairytale.
Good for the kids that want to get out into the world and earn some cash while learning skills that will set them up in a well paying career for life.
Wait ‘till the little snowflakes find out trade school means you don’t sit in front a computer screen every day and most trades require physical effort.....they may change their minds.
Having said that I’m proud I worked in a trade related field......it allowed me to retire at 59 1/2.
Am I rich? No but I am comfortable.....and for me that damn good enough.
Good news.
Short of being able to employ all those useless degrees teaching more to have useless degrees, (like the explosion of Sociology and Psych degrees in the 70s), they have to create a ‘need’ for their services.
Not likely with the fringe elements of wokeism, and the youngsters have awakened to the concept of earning money while apprenticing a trade, or just going to work.
The value of a Bachelor’s degree has been watered down pretty badly since I got mine in the 70s, no matter the field, because so much other stuff gets shoved in to graduate, even in STEM fields.
RE: the world needs plumbers and electricians more than they need diversity studies majors.
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Great scene in the Money Pit had Tom Hanks trying to convince the man he later learned was the “executive plumber” to accept his project.
Plumber asks him about his background as he had never heard of him.
“I haven’t heard of you, either.” He has a law degree and had been on the law review.
Hanks says “Well I don’t feel like telling you how much I make. How much do you make?” Then...(shocked) “That much, huh?”
My father and uncles insisted I learned a trade as well as getting a STEM degree.
I can build a world crossing boat from scratch, as well as design the software to allow idiots to create web sites.
Good trend, most college degrees are way overpriced.
Smart kids!
For every 5 who retire i.e. the people who actually keep the country running in a practical way (mechanics, electricians, plumbers, heavy equipment operators & on & on) they are being replaced by ONE person.
For example:
If the goal is to make a living without a boatload of debt, I have talked to several of the HVAC techs who service our units. No experience: employers will put them through training at no $$ cost to trainee. Experienced: $80K+ a year & that was before COVID. No trouble finding a job - even transferring to another state is no problem.
Mr. Mabel, if pieces of paper made one more intelligent in
the US economic structure, mail clerks would be sitting on top
of the world. Your reasoning is ridiculous.
Mr. McGuire suggesting to Dustin the future is plastic would be much easier to swallow, as well as, much less expensive (perhaps).
From 2018:
Trump and Ratzenberger on Trade Schools:
https://youtu.be/QRaKt—jM2s
40 years ago, that kind of talk would have been unthinkable by most people.
To say a degree wasn’t really necessary. You would have been scolded by your elders, well, by most of them.
Nowadays, this is the correct way to think for most people, unless you really, really want that major course of study. Different than saying you are dimply eager to move out of the family home.
From 2011:
The jobs tide threatens an American industrial tsunami (John Ratzenberger)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2671304/posts
I think more parents are talking their kids out of desiring to go- explaining that it’s mostly nothing but moronic liberal indoctrination these days
[[Wait ‘till the little snowflakes find out trade school means you don’t sit in front a computer screen every day and most trades require physical effort.....they may change their minds.]]
Lol- aint that the truth! There have been articles on FR about kids complaining that manual work is punishment-
Of course. Someone has to support all those professors and administrators, and if it takes being a quarter mil in debt for the first half of their working life to do that, well, it's their patriotic duty. All the university studies say so.
The lockdowns didn't do anything more than accelerate an already ongoing process - brick-and-mortar universities are going the way of brick-and-mortar stores. Both will require fewer employees.
Money is a huge issue. But even for the more affordable colleges, who wants to spend that much to go to an insane asylum? That is what colleges have turned into.
Remove all of the government money (including government loans) from schools and the free market will tell us the true value of degrees from college and/or trade school.
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