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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Everything you could possibly learn at a $50,000 a year university you can learn in 1/10th the time for free on you tube.
They can’t be gainfully employed using their degrees because there is not gainful employment for those degrees.
This needs to be repeated because many don’t understand, that many college majors do not lead to jobs and careers.
Some do, of course, and college makes sense if you are interested in those fields. But to get a degree in history, English, Sociology, Women’s Studies, among others, does not lead to particular jobs or careers. Definitely all should be discouraged from getting loans to get a degree in fields which don’t lead to good paying jobs.
Find em and congratulate em. Couldn’t happen fast enough
They need to vaccinate them.
And, more than that thousands of college counselors may lose THEIR jobs!
Institutions of Lower Learning can sell useless degrees to 18-year-olds who don’t know any better but a 25-year-old who has been in the real world has expectations of what they want from the product their buying.
“All too many kids go to college that have no business being in college.”
Not to mention there are too many colleges that have no business being colleges.
Where are the guys? I remember when my daughter started college and we went to the initiating, it was at least 70% female amongst the entering students.
Kind of reminds me of that graphic featuring the kid with a paid internship at the local power company and the one with a degree in psychology.
Anybody know what I'm talking about?
Exactly right, can’t have them excape these indoctrination centers
The “fold” implies they are like animals to be cultivated for the benefit of the wayward student or of the educators livelihood.
The pandemic, or scamdemic, or bioattack,or whatever showed us...the things we believe that are most important to us.
Yup.
They found out they’re just as employable without a degree in sociology, or a doctorate in theater criticism. And yes, there really is a doctoral program in theater criticism.
The “education industrial complex” is as great a force for leftist control as the “military industrial” one and our financial system.
“Hunt Is On for High-School Graduates Who Left the College Path”
I thought this was The Bee and they were referring to plumbing and other trade contractors trying to find them and give them a non-hate-filled life.
The going rate for a plumber in our area is $166/hour with a minimum charge of one hour for a home call.
The shop, we used to use has a new owner, and the former plumbers have gone out on their own.
Our contractor feels that with so many more people staying at home due to Covis , they are using their plumbing equipment more often and wearing home plumbing out faster, time wise.
Grandson is/was going the Tech School Mechenanics route. If he doesn’t let his 2nd drive besides food sideline him. 19 is to young to commit his sex drive over schooling. Not 1 dime will I give him for school, unless he’s fully committed. Then only to the school. Tell the honeypot to go to school too and Go HOME. More in the sea, later.
His dad made the mistake of letting the honeypot move in. He kicked her slob butt out. Grandson thinks its terrible, I think it’s great. Thinks he can go live with his Uncle, that 1 is married, 1 kid 3.5 yrs old, no job, lives with his wife’s dad to share bills, only 3 bdrms. Memphis, not a nice neighborhood. Wife’s dad won’t allow it rented in his name.
Don’t come crying to me, moving in with me is more terrible than living with his dad. I raised 3 boys for a decade by myself. I’m now 73 in Aug. I don’t need the drama.
“Most of them will be better off.”
Our grand kids like their parents are hard and smart workers.
In high school summers and college summers before Cv19 they had more job offers than time to work. Often the jobs were handed down from the older kid to younger kid.
The 2 summers before CV19 the oldest kid worked for the premium clothing store on the west coast. The last summer she worked there, they offered to pick her up at the airport in a limo to come to work for them, the day she came home from college for the summer. She made a deal for them to pick up her up at the airport, bring her home and after the weekend, she would come to work a week early.
They provided the limo to get her home. Then, they provided her with a BART pass and transportation to and from the Bart station and their store in that area.
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