4+ years that could be productive working? That’s 10% of ones work life wasted. Most jobs do not require a college degree. 18 year-olds should live at home for 2-4 years and invest ALL their income. They will be much better off 40 years down the road.
Start it off by paying 1000 valedictorians $100k to NOT go to college.
They now want a 4 year college degree to be a receptionist.
You answer a phone, say, "one moment let me connect you" or "please hold" and they think you need a 4 year degree.
The idea pushed by many liberals that “dirty jobs”, the skilled manual labor work is beneath them, is one reason why we have so many crises.
You send kids to go to college to train for the few management and middle class knowledge labor jobs we need, employing lots of professors but resulting in many grads working menial labor with major student loan debt.
Meanwhile, due to the skills mismatch, there are many manual labor jobs begging - so employers beg for illegal and legal immigrants to do the work many of the bottom third of American kids should have been trained to do.