Conway: 'Not everyone is college material'

The Hill ^ | Olivia Beavers

[Lazamataz]

She didn’t phrase it well. I would have said:

“Too many effin’ moron creepy emo-kids think they are smart, but they are hopelessly stupid. They should stop polluting society and leave college to those who can actually freakin’ think. GAH I hate them.”

[sarge83]

AMEN! I just tried to help a student who enrolled as a freshmen. He was essentially computer illiterate and his faculty adviser put him in online college classes. All the classes were four year prep classes and he will never go to a four year college. He will fail out more than likely but from talking with him would probably do great in a trade like HVAC or auto mechanic classes.

[sarge83]

My son graduated a couple of years ago from high school and attempted the traditional four year college and he hated it, despised it would be a more apt description. He wants to be a cop and started working at a local university in their security department in dispatch, then trained security and now up to armed security, building towards a police officer.
Just just turned 21 and will be taking the test to become an officer in our home state.

All the while he was taking criminal justice classes at the local community college, two a semester and his basic classes Eng. 101 and 102. As I told him if you become an officer you have to be able to write a coherent report and has done quite well doing the two classes and working thing.

If I told him he needed to go to a four year college now he would refuse, it’s just not for him.

[cyclotic]

Sounds like a plan.

Give him my best and I hope we never meet on the side of the road.

[KosmicKitty]

Not so long ago, an IQ of 110 was considered the baseline for succeeding in college.

Average IQ of college students today - now down to 100.

[Gumdrop]

Common sense in determining the course of action in post-High
school education would go a long way.

Back in ‘pre-historic’ times when I was in university, I knew that I wanted a career in a science-oriented profession. So, at that time, just before women began entering medical school, I opted for a 4-year degree in Medical Technology. So I got my Bachelors degree in immediately was hired to work in a hospital medical lab.

Today’s students can achieve similar success with common sense. Instead many of them think that they want to study only courses which they ‘like’. That is why silly degrees began to be offered for these ‘lazy and spoiled’ HS kids.

I can only applaud at the changes which are slowly being recognized and implemented in our technical colleges. Now if only the high schools would admit their errors and reinstate shop classes for their students.

[Jim Noble]

Not “college material” sounds rather rude as it implies kids that aren’t smart enough to succeed in college

And?

What percentage of the 18-year old US population do you believe are "smart enough to succeed in college"?

[9YearLurker]

Looks like your a year behind the thinking of some of the most successful hedge fund managers ever:

http://dealbreaker.com/2016/05/steve-cohen-would-rather-hire-a-19-year-old-than-any-of-you-clowns/

[Hammerhead]

Lol