47% of black kids thought they “definitely would” go to college? Sorry kids, they just don’t hand out that many basketball scholarships. I am sure that straight up 90% of those 47% saying they “definitely would” go to college were talking about athletics and not scholastics. There is no way 47% of black high school freshmen think they are going to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, accountant or any other profession needing a college degree. No way.
All the negativity toward college on this thread is scaring me.
I hope you parents who have high school children with solid technical academic aptitude are not steering them to become carpenters instead of doctors, lawyers, engineers and accountants.
Just how many high school drop outs became big name CEO’s last year? 10? 20? 100? 5000?
We had 5000 kids in my high school. Sure, you just go on telling your kids to drop out and become CEO of a tech start up. Go for it. You may have an extra room they can use to live with you the rest of your life anyway.
It is insane to take kids with solid academic aptitude and intentionally steer them into lower paying, less secure blue collar jobs when they can get a bachelors of science or masters of science degree and make more money with more job security in a better work environment. Just insane.
I agree that many bachelor of arts majors are worthless. It is the parents job to steer their intellectual children away from the arts and toward the sciences. You can’t always do that, but discouraging children from going to college in favore of a lower paying blue collar job, often with much more difficult working conditions, is just insane.
Most of you on this thread are nuts. You are whacked out and giving horrible advice. Any child with the aptitude to graduate from college should be encouraged to do so in one of the sciences or technical fields. To not do so is to betray your children. It is really sad to see so much bad advice on one thread.