Actually it is true for most students, irregardless of race. We are sending too many students to college. The result is too many unprepared students who drop out of college and an oversupply of college graduates burdened with crushing debt.
College education has become a racket for the benefit of overpaid and underworked professors and bloated college administrations. Bring back vo-tech for more students. Indeed, how many of the degrees offered in colleges today are really vo-tech programs burdened with unnecessary liberal arts course to justify their presence at a college rather than at a vocational school?
For the higher paying vo-tech jobs, one needs actual 12th grade or more math and reading skills. If they don't have those skills for college, they won't get through vo-tech training either.
It's not only that, but that they're majoring in completely useless degrees.
You are exactly right that too many students go to college and not enough go to voc-tech. Many of the college degrees are absolutely worthless. Many of the students were never good students in junior high or high school and becoming a college student is never going to magically make them a good student.
Also, it is far less likely that one’s job as a plumber or electrician will ever be outsourced the way other careers have been.