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Men are skipping college: 4 reasons why you should pay attention
News Nation ^ | 4/1/24 | Andrew Dorn

Posted on 04/01/2024 1:01:07 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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To: RoosterRedux

“Companies are increasingly hiring kids right out of high school...”

Not just companies. The PA State Police academy dropped the college degree requirement for at least the current class of new recruits.


21 posted on 04/01/2024 3:02:27 AM PDT by WinMod70
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To: WinMod70

Blue collar kids make better cops. In the history of policing, college degrees are no advantage and are often a detriment.


22 posted on 04/01/2024 3:07:10 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: WinMod70

The proof is that agencies that do require them almost never require a specific major. Get it in anything and that’s fine. Imagine walking up to an accounting firm with a degree in history or university studies and getting hired straight in.
They respond that it magically confers some sort of air about the person that makes them a more wholesome cop.

But at 3am you want the other kind of cop coming to save you.


23 posted on 04/01/2024 3:12:53 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: WinMod70
Traditional colleges and universities were already under attack from online degree programs and community/tech schools, so they committed suicide with DEI.

Crazy stupid.

And Gen Z college graduates are less than worthless (they actually damage their workspaces with talk of entitlement and preferred pronouns).

24 posted on 04/01/2024 3:16:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The essay deliberately avoids a critical ethnic statistic.

When I graduated from high school, almost 90% of USA students were non-Hispanic whites.

In 2024, less than 50% of USA students are non-Hispanic white.

Young Black Americans and young Hispanic Americans overwhelmingly support the Political Left.


25 posted on 04/01/2024 3:26:17 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: enumerated

The remedy is for the Federal Government to be barred totally from giving any money or resources to any educational institution and to decommission every department or agency that has any bearing on education and to get completely out of the business of lending money or guaranteeing loans for education or any damned thing else.


26 posted on 04/01/2024 3:30:12 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Y)
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To: MachIV

College women will more and more trend toward taking Fedgov to be their wedded husband as so many single suburban women do now.


27 posted on 04/01/2024 3:32:06 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe La)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I know the picture is supposed to show Rowan Atkinson, as being funny, and he is, but by trade, he graduated with an electrical engineering background, so he is no dummy.


28 posted on 04/01/2024 3:33:28 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Tout cela est vrai!


29 posted on 04/01/2024 3:34:00 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe La)
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To: Mogger

Best news I’ve read in a while...


30 posted on 04/01/2024 3:38:23 AM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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There will always be electricity. There will always be a need for Electrical Workers. Industrial electricians bring in pretty good money. AC&R, sometimes referred to as HVAC pays well but I would recommend getting into the industrial side of that concentration rather than finding yourself crawling up and attics or crawling under houses.


31 posted on 04/01/2024 3:42:17 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: RomanSoldier19
The real unintended consequence will be colleges and Universities will lose standing and status. It's already happening.

32 posted on 04/01/2024 3:52:08 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: Mogger

Had I to do it over again I would have become a plumber and worked to start my own business. Instead of getting college loans, I’d have borrowed money to get that first business start once I’d gotten enough journeyman experience and licenses.


33 posted on 04/01/2024 3:54:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DesertRhino

College is where one learns STEM jobs. You can’t fake engineering or surgery.


34 posted on 04/01/2024 4:08:16 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Traditional colleges and universities were already under attack from online degree programs and community/tech schools, so they committed suicide with DEI.

The only thing saving major universities now is the football and basketball programs and alumni hung up on bragging rights.
35 posted on 04/01/2024 4:22:56 AM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: Mogger

One of my nephews dropped out of college after his freshman year, worked in a cell phone store for a while. Fast forward, at age 43 he is a software engineer working from home, married with four children. His salary is well into the six figures.


36 posted on 04/01/2024 4:24:29 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: RomanSoldier19

Not going to college means they’ll be smarter in the long run, probably stay the same gender they were at birth and actually contribute to society.


37 posted on 04/01/2024 4:35:34 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Old Yeller

The student loan racket is the only thing saving them - and that is why they keep dribbling out bits and pieces of Biden’s forgiveness. I haven’t followed closely, but I believe that helps people who have been paying towards their loans for decades - but that is buried so young fools will still borrow.

Many young people (of both genders) realize they won’t get a job that allows them to repay the loans; one gender assumes the other will help them pay theirs...


38 posted on 04/01/2024 4:36:59 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: arthurus
College women will more and more trend toward taking Fedgov to be their wedded husband as so many single suburban women do now.

On the bright side, they won't be reproducing.

39 posted on 04/01/2024 4:39:32 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: RomanSoldier19
"Single and divorced men are at higher risk of dying from opioids. Married men also live longer and die by suicide at lower rates."

I find this hard to believe.....

40 posted on 04/01/2024 4:42:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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