“college is not their only option”
This. I think students should be permitted to graduate at 16 and enter a trade as an apprentice. It makes sense for those not interested in college.
agree fully.
we see SO many young people who were forced or coerced into college studies when they were not prepared for them, not interested in them, or simply didn’t want to spend more time in schooling when they could have (if left free to choose) gone into a good trade or apprenticeship to pursue lives they were more interested in
plus, many colleges teach a lot of garbage anyway, not anything like “genuine” liberal arts or humanities or history or political science, etcetera. At these schools, even if a student really really wanted to learn any of these (non-primarily-career-oriented) subjects well, they could not do it (as these subjects have been infiltrated, co-opted, polluted, and internally-replaced with leftist propaganda-infested rubbish at these schools, including we must note several of our famous “elite” colleges)
—”Students should be permitted to graduate at 16 and enter a trade as an apprentice.”
Our daughter completed two years of college and was bored.
She was accepted into a union electrician apprenticeship at age 20 and was the youngest in all of her classes.
They told her that they prefer them over twenty-one to avoid dropouts.
She did cell tower work (at the top) and was a cell tower instructor until our first grandchild arrived... Then finished school, and now the Director of Operations at the same employer.
They also need to update some other rules. My son got his commercial driver license at 18. DOT rules are that you cannot cross state lines until you are 21.
We live in a small state so he moved at 19 to a larger state so he could get a better job. By the time he turned 21, he had about 300,000 safe miles under his belt.
He drives mostly flatbed semi’s. Flatbed drivers are paid more because they are responsible for their load. Tarping, tying down, proper weight distribution etc.
I think the rule should be changed to 500 or 1000 miles from your home base.