Excellent. Thanks Kelly Ann.
My son, who is very smart but not the academic type is planning a career in the skilled trades. Many of his friends are doing the same. Hopefully the college bubble is bursting.
The education establishment has been lying for generations that the only way to succeed is college.
I vehemently disagree and have for a long time. We need plumbers welders and mechanics far more than we need lawyers, accountants and doctors. We have no need at all for Women’s studies, African studies, philosophy and much of the other trash degrees that come out of colleges these days.
My other son is studying aerospace engineering. Yep, you need college for that one and thus, I support it. Going to college and getting $100K in debt for the experience? Nope.
Our oldest just graduated in Engineering and just started his first job today. Our other one, is going into a trade. He'll probably make more money that all of us.
I completely agree with your post.
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.