A college degree is becoming like home ownership yet not all people are smart enough to be in college or disciplined enough to have a mortgage.”
We have a WINNER!!!!
EXACTLY!!!!!
The school boards have removed almost all of the vocational classes- welding-—woodworking-—shop-— mechanics-— even home economics where a person can at least learn how to cook, since they are surely going to eat for the rest of their lives.
Employers looking for machinists, carpenters, cabinet makers, fabricators who can weld.... they are crying.
I ask them: When in your entire life have you ever gone to a school board meeting and discussed with them about the lack of training for those who are definately NOT college material????
They look at me with the deer in the headlights look, and say never..
Not even when their own kids were in school. They are leaders in their communities—Rotary- Kiwanis- Elks- Chamber of Commerce-—and none of them think for 2 seconds about hammering the school board to put those classes back into the schools.
Now everyone bitches about “jobs going out of the country”. We have brought some of this on ourselves, acting thruout trhe entire 13 years of a kids public education as tho having any kind of a blue collar job is just “not done”. Teachers are the second generation of the NEA influence. We are stabbing ourselves to death.
Until we turn this around- we will have thousands of seats occupied in colleges by kids who are only proving they can warm up the seat. They will never be productive from the classes they will eventually drop out of.
Pushing them with tutors, etc, gets them possibly thru college, but only ends up putting a kid into a job they hate, IMO.
Thank you. It’s nice when your post gets acknowledged!
Off topic, is anyone else having problems connecting to Free Republic? When I do connect it’s either slow or stops completely. We’ll see if I can even post this.
In the case of the girl who earned “A”s in high school and then needed remedial classes in college...well...evidently her teachers LIED to her!
ALL government school teachers who hand out bogus grades, ALL principals who promote kids who are not proficient in math and English, and ALL other teachers who cooperate with this system are LIARS!
As for you other point, I think Charles Murray has the right idea. We need private competency tests and board exams for certification. Let's dump most of what passes for Liberal/Marxist indoctrination in college.