Posted on 03/27/2018 7:02:16 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
There are few reasons for students not to take the first 2 years of college at a community college.
Just make sure the credits will be transferable to the University.
Today’s kids cannot be trusted to turn off the garden hose, mow the lawn, weed the flower beds, water & feed the dog & cat in the household or to take out the garbage.
Small wonder that they cannot perform anything useful for an employer !!!
Then there are the countless occupational skills from basic electrician to nuclear technology. Combined the both, and the employer knows he has someone who will perform and probably advance. At the least they will have the discipline to do their job correctly. The US military has the best trade schools in the world.
Or at least they did. Starting to wonder why our Navy ships keep running into other ships and aground. I have my ideas. Still, the best of the best trained sailors are submariners. There is NO margin for error on submarines. Aside from their occupational specialty, all are cross-trained to have a basic understanding of all systems on their boat in case of emergency.
Of course an aircraft mechanic of any branch literally holds the life of a pilot in his hands. There are others equally important. Even the logistics types have to be proficient in getting supplies to ground grunts. Without them, the Army, Marines, Spec-Ops wouldn't have their materials for combat.
Sorta makes me wish we still had the draft. Yes, we used to get no loads, but they would wash out or not advance.
For $20,000 per year I could send my kid to the best private school and they would be prepared for college, any college.
And yet, for all that money we are paying to educate everyone's kids and we are not getting our bang back from our investment.
Somebody needs to grab the NEA and the Department of Education by the pits and force them to explain to us why employers are being forced to do the job we are paying the NEA and the D of E to do.
I graduated high school 5-23-1957.
I already knew how to type-—file—and to run a calculator to add columns & to do other office work. While I had to ‘be trained’ in the particular details of any individual company, I already knew those skills.
In fact, in those days, large companies used to come out to the rural Wisconsin high schools & TEST who ever wished to be tested & they RECRUITED from those in school contacts. I was tested & recruited by Kroger for their Divisional office in Madison, Wis., and that became my first full time real job.
Now- since then, the ACLU & NAACP sued to force schools & companies to no longer be allowed to TEST students to find their IQ, skill ability or their natural direction for any particular job. Add affirmative action, and you have a mess.
I graduated high school 5-23-1957.
I already knew how to type-—file—and to run a calculator to add columns & to do other office work. While I had to ‘be trained’ in the particular details of any individual company, I already knew those skills.
In fact, in those days, large companies used to come out to the rural Wisconsin high schools & TEST who ever wished to be tested & they RECRUITED from those in school contacts. I was tested & recruited by Kroger for their Divisional office in Madison, Wis., and that became my first full time real job.
Now- since then, the ACLU & NAACP sued to force schools & companies to no longer be allowed to TEST students to find their IQ, skill ability or their natural direction for any particular job. Add affirmative action, and you have a mess.
1) You could re-invent universities so that there is less Marxist indoctrination and so that an education is more affordable. At $60,000 a year for 4 years -- plus grad school in many cases -- it's hard to get a degree without substantial debt. So, how can we achieve a higher education system which is more focused on real education and more affordable? High Education is a Big Money Operation that does not want to change its approach.
2) You could shift society toward more on the job training so that companies are more willing to hire young people and take some responsibility for giving them skills to do the work.
A lot of young people take on crippling debt for almost no benefit. It's sad.
Try they need to learn a lot of them in HS. Hubby was Associate Prof, retired as Chair of the Electronic/Computer/Math department of local JR College in Memphis. All Memphis A/B Math students had to take REMEDIAL MATH CLASSES before they could take the other parts of the course. Foreign born didn’t have to. Over all scored better, and went on to higher degrees several as lawyers, doctors, etc.
Well, in all fairness to the commie lib diploma kids, they are kind of busy with marches, “protests” and spring break. Not a of time to study with all of that going on.
Instant Unemployment Degrees or IUD's.
Thanks to the left wing snowflake masters controlling our liberal universities, their new IUD's are even more worthless in today's market.
This is because our supposed education system is really an indoctrination system to bring down the USA. Thank you Democrats for our national education department.
I’ve seen many an MBA working at a sunglass hut, and not doing a good job.
My has a handful of friends who married non college grads who joined the Air Force. The guys had good careers and ended up with good degrees.
After their AF retirements, they were able to get good jobs with their AF Training and degrees earned while in the AF.
A couple of guys in their 70’s still do consulting gigs with former companies or competitors.
$50 an hour is better than most engineers are making.
That’s how it should be. You can teach somebody more and better in four years on the job than anything college can do in that time.
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