Yup. We need more trade schools and apprenticeship programs.
Absolutely...But of course...that means work and ethics and honesty and .....
If the kid is smart, he or she should simply use college as a high-end trade school. My son graduated last year as a civil engineer. He already makes more than my wife and I combined. Plus, on his own, he now reads all the literary “classics” he missed in college — without the disadvantage of a left-wing, America-hating grad student interpreting the classics for him.