Posted on 06/12/2017 6:26:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Saturday “not everyone is college material” while urging for workforce development courses to be made available at technical colleges.
“Not everyone is college material,” Conway told host Jeanine Pirro on Fox’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine.” “Not everyone has to graduate from a four year college with a mountain of debt and very few prospects.”
Conway pointed to a trip President Trump and his daughter and special counselor Ivanka Trump will be making to Wisconsin for ‘Workforce Development Week.’ There, the president will visit a technical college along with Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta.
“They’ll be going there to talk at a technical college and really see what’s going on there and get some best practices as Ivanka’s been doing for these roundtables and these listening sessions,” Conway told Pirro.
“This involvement in workforce development means that if people want a vocational educational — technical educational — skills certificate they should have access to that,” she added.
Conway said skills-certificate programs that make people "employable" need to be valued in the U.S.
“People are saying, ‘Look, if you are in a skills-certificate program, you can graduate and be employable — welders, carpenters, plumbers, hair dressers.' We need to value that. We need to value that in our country and Ivanka Trump and her father will be out there doing that," Conway said.
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This has long been known. Our country set up vocational schools (carpentry, auto mechanics, etc.) but then for some reason phased them out or diminished them. Probably lobbying from “higher” education
I drove by a “Help Wanted” sign yesterday...Licensed Electricians, $47.56 per hour.
Yup. But I like to make them squirm!
And there’s nothing freaking wrong with it. They’ll probably make more money than many of the college grads. College is such a scam these days.
She’s right. Of course the MSM will go nuts over this. The more “truth” is spoken, the more liberals and snowflakes howl.
The shocking truth is that only about one third of adult Americans over the age of 25 have a college degree!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States
While I agree with her, 100%, there will be those who are offended by the inference that “college material” implies a certain level of intelligence.
She could have worded it in a way to indicate that various education and training avenues need to be open, based on the interests and aptitudes, etc....
JMHO
Agree. We should come up alternative ways of expressing that truth. I'll start.
HR people put unofficial caps on wages then they complain they cant find anyone. Wages pretty much suck and are flat.
You didn't see that sign in central VA. Electricians are lucky to make $25.00/hr.
Doubt he will. He informed me the other night that he wanted to get "Two....maybe three" PHD's. I told him that would be great, I'd help with his first BS, then he was on his own. Love the optimism of youth.
Going into a trade, you'll always have work especially if you're willing to travel, and you'll get a higher salary more quickly. However, I'd argue that the top end is higher with a college degree, it just takes longer to get there. Any of the trades can be harder *physical* work.
But it's true.
Not so long ago, an IQ of 110 was considered the baseline for succeeding in college. That's less than 20% of the white population and 7% or 8% of blacks.
Now, obviously many colleges have been dumbed down, but we still do kids no favor by pushing them into college without the ability.
It's not rudeness.
Most in the media may as well have not gone. Ignorant regarding economics, not very well read when it comes to classic literature, illiterate about the Constitution, unable to discuss history....
Fake journalists today basically are writers—taught how to craft paragraphs or sentences together to explain away a pre-determined point of view.
And there are some who have to be nursed through high school and they still go to college. And once there, the pressure is on the professors not to flunk anyone. Only tenured professors care to buck that policy.
They are trying to spin this as if she said something insulting. To suggest my kid may not be the type of person gullible enough to go in to interminable debt for the pleasure of being indoctrinated with leftist dogma and deprived of skills or knowledge that could lead to gainfull employment could be considered a compliment!
+1. I know two people that went to community college and got trained on CNC programming. They make around $100k and have no school debt.
Puget Sound, WA
+1
When you consider that so many college degrees are merely worthless pieces of paper, the percentage of people with useful degrees is much lower.
A lot of college programs aren’t college material.
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