"*Everyone* can be super! And when everyone's super-- heh heh heh --no one will be."
Posted on 05/07/2009 6:43:33 AM PDT by freespirited
Fifty-six percent (56%) of American adults say that every American should receive further education after high school by attending either a college or vocational school. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 30% disagree and 13% are not sure.
Fifty-four percent (54%) believe that it’s already possible for just about any good student to find a way to attend college, while 31% disagree. Sixty-three percent (63%) of Republicans hold this view along with 47% of Democrats and 52% of those not affiliated with either major party. While upper income Americans are more confident in the ability of any good student to attend college, a plurality of those earning less than $20,000 a year share that view as well.
Forty-one percent (41%) believe it is more important for the government to provide assistance for low-income students than to help the best and the brightest. However, 30% hold the opposite view and 29% are not sure.
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Most of those who earn less than $60,000 a year say the government should focus most on low-income students. Most of those who earn more than $75,000 a year say the government should help the best and the brightest.
There is a partisan difference as well. By a 3-to-1 margin, Democrats say it’s more important for the government to aid low-income students. A narrow plurality of Republicans hold the opposite view while unaffiliateds are evenly divided.
Providing every child with a college education is one of four major priorities outlined by President Obama in a joint address to Congress earlier this year. Of the four priorities, deficit reduction is considered most important and health care number two. Health care is considered the top priority by Democrats.
“Fifty-six percent (56%) of American adults say that every American should receive further education after high school...”
Fifty-six percent (56%) of me agrees with that part since I am 100% doubtful a current high school graduate has been taught what’s needed to keep them from being a drag on humanity, let alone what’s needed to be an asset.
I might agree that college would be useful if they weren’t Marxist brainwashing institutes. So many “degreed” people have learned little of value and so much that just isn’t true. I’m skeptical of anyone with a soft science degree, and 10 times more skeptical if that degree is from an Ivy League School.
What college does prove is that one is capable of finishing something.
Part of the problem is HR departments requiring a degree for even the most menial job. My company for instance has decided that 1st level help desk staff (people basically reading a script on a screen) need a BA/BS. I’d demand a refund if I spent four years in college and could only qualify for that job. It’s sad because that was exactly the sort of work one of my sons did while going to school to earn a degree. Now he wouldn’t be qualified.
I congratulate your middle son for choosing a very challenging and rewarding path. As a priest, he will do far more good for this nation than any community organizer could ever hope to accomplish.
That is my prayer! Thank you.
Excellent point, and it hasn’t been noted that the survey asked whether students should go to college OR votech, so I didn’t find it an outrageous or incorrect response on the part of most people.
It seems to me that the comm coll has largely taken the place of the traditional tech schools, and do offer many, many opportunities for vocational training. So, if everyone wants to go to “college” and learn a trade, so be it. I really don’t have a problem with that.
I actually think the community college system is one thing that the country has pretty much gotten right, so it is ripe for the commies to come along and ruin.
I like college.
"*Everyone* can be super! And when everyone's super-- heh heh heh --no one will be."
“I DO think that people should have some education beyond high scool whether it is vo-tech, an Associate’s Degree, a university education, etc.”
I think that is the same thing as the people in this poll were asked. It says:
“Fifty-six percent (56%) of American adults say that every American should receive further education after high school by attending either a college or vocational school.”
To me that changes the whole thing. Everyone should have an appropriate level of education or training (whether that means vo-tech, 2-year degree, or 4-year degree), so that they are capable of obtaining employment, and supporting themselves. If they choose not to do so, it should not be the taxpayer’s responsibility to step in and save them.
56% of Americans believe that young people should start out their working lives deeply in debt.
Phlegm at 11...
No, this is America where all the children are above average.
Have they figured out how they are going to deal with all the high school dropouts we have today? Are these folks going to get a pass and be able to attend college too? Seems like a waste of money if they couldn’t even manage to finish high school......
don’t you mean “56% of Americans should attend ‘Obama’s re-education training program’”
You have highlighted the root of the problem: few people THINK these days. You have asked questions that most Liberals and their pals in government do not ask.
I think every American should get multiple post-graduate degrees!
That's a little bit different from the headline.
I have a college degree hanging over my toilet that reminds me everyday that getting ahead in this world has NOTHING to do with acquiring knowledge in a college atmosphere.
It’s who you know and who you blow....
Flame away......
Bullshiite!
30 percent of the Country doesn’t even graduate from High School, and a whole bunch more that do are functional idiots that can’t even balance a checkbook, much less understand College level math.
A GED and a tattoo on your ass are not going to get you started on a Bachelor’s Degree, and having the Gubment make direct student loans to every dumbass who probably cannot even fill out the application without assistance is just insane.
There are others who get ahead by getting an education, not a degree. Educate YOURSELF. You have the most interest in where you end up, not some tenured liberal professor. There are many examples of people getting ahead with an 8th grade education and many who have multiple degrees who don’t.
Its not who you know as much as it is what you do with what you know. While it is eyeopening to some that after college the world is your oyster only if you work hard, most who are self educated expect no less........
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