Why force the grand kids into college?
Because they want to eat. Seriously trade schools are good if the kid has that ability. Second, going to college in the long run will give you a much better chance for upward mobility. Sure trade schools will allow you to make some money but college will allow you to make much much more. If I had not gone to college, I would not be making as much as I am now. Go to college grandkids.
Really? Most of the people I went to college with and went into the line of work they degreed in are in dead end jobs that earn less than the couple of us who said the hell with what our degree says and went off and did our own things. In some cases they are making less than some plumbers and electricians I know. A friend of mine knows how to use heavy machinery. No college at all. He makes $100K+ a year.
This meme that college is the only way to succeed is an outdated relic from the Great Depression when you needed an edge. Now everyone and their brother has a degree. They are meaningless.