Posted on 08/15/2019 4:51:47 PM PDT by bgill
OK, I didn’t catch that, so my bad. I missed that.
I wish we did a much better job pushing vocational training for people who really should not be on a college path. We would have better skilled labor earlier in the process.
Amen. I am dreaming, but disolving the Fed Department of Education and turning over ALL schools back to the locals and States would be a good first step. Federal control is a huge part of the problem with schools today, at all levels.
I am talking to you, Common Core. Is that still in our schools or did the locals finally get rid of that abomination?
I found that you needed to be there in the classroom for the engineering classes.
Absolutely correct. The college push has been going on for a LONG time. I grew up in a farming community, and going to college was pushed hard on all us kids. I didn’t want to go, so I joined the national guard and then the Army. I really wish we had some sort of trade program in high school. I wasn’t interested in becoming a farmer either, although I miss that stuff sometimes.
College might make sense for some. But in today’s world everyone thinks it’s appropriate for all, even the diversity introspection courses and basket weaving - ridiculous.
This college scam survives basically for one reason:
They have managed to propagandize the vast majority of employers to set a Bachelors Degree as the minimum entry bar for most jobs.
Make that go away and tuitions will start dropping like a rock.
Ditto.
All I see in that pic is Lacy... ;)
Wished I could have gone to a bullfight on acid with her.
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