The bias of the article is every one needs or wants to go to college.
There is no mention of the value of a vocational education, of schooling that gives young people practical life and job skills.
We don’t invest in making that possible because of our obsession with a four year liberal arts college degree and we’re short-changing our children and denying them an opportunity to choose what’s best for their future.
Then again, its easy to rail against poverty and say all we need is to push young people into college when it may not be right for all of them.
Kids these days are denied nothing.
I stopped going to university because I couldn’t afford it. I hit several speed bumps along the way, but at 31 I have my own business budding and I will likely do a fine job once it’s off the ground.
Mental/emotional issues and I daresay that I ma of a clearer mindset and better equipped than I was at 21. It’s a blessing.
As for skills training, yes, I would encourage trade school and university/college later, mainly in the late twenties and early thirties.
I’m sick of the college/university obsession myself.