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“It always cracks me up when I hear “teachers” tell students to study hard or you will not be able to go to college.”

Me, too. College is a joke. The coursework has been dumbed down so far as to make college nothing more than an expensive participation trophy. Too bad participation is required by those that received their plastic trophies so everyone else has to go too.

I hope that changes soon. I am doing my part by not requiring a degree for most positions I hire. For those positions that need a degree, a Doctorate is the minimum since it is the only level of degree that requires students to know how to identify facts and write at an academic level.

“College is a JOKE.” True, but it ain’t funny any more.
As far as I’m concerned, they are now INDOCTRINARIUMS.
And paying off a college loan debt that is the equivalent of the price of a new home means, you don’t have the money to buy a new home until you are too old to enjoy it.

I'm always amused when people throat out barbs that denigrate colleges and universities. Because, like it or not, it's the kids who have or will come out of those schools who will discover how to cure the cancer that might strike your children or grandchildren. It's those kids who will study engineering who will find out how to keep the airplanes we and our families ride, safer. It's young college-educated ministers and scholars who will advance the study of Scripture or will comfort your families in the time of desperate need. Someone, likely who went to college, who helps make the technological advances in your house, your car, or in the jet fighters, rifles, and weapon systems who will be called upon to defend us, your families, and the American people.

There's place for each person in America. Some will chose to create their place college.

Our job in all of this, as you state, is to give guidance and values of character and and integrity to our children and their children, so they will develop their own, well-founded institutions and zeitgeist.