This is where the education system needs a complete overhaul.
Not everyone is cut out for college. Most kids should be in a vocation program in HS and not college prep courses.
The restructuring of our economy that began with NAFTA and accelerated this century moved decent paying manufacturing jobs out of this country. Feminism has replaced men in the boardrooms and office space. Illegal immigration has flooded the trades eliminating more decent paying opportunity. Kids these days, especially white males, feel they have no other option than attend a university that they may not have aptitude for, if they wish to buy a home and raise a family.
These kids failing is predictable.
If you ran these HS vocation programs like an apprenticeship, these classes could actually build saleable products which would pay for the programs themselves. When I was in HS the building trades program used to actually go out in the field and build a house each semester. We need to think like this in education.
There should be admission testing for university. Only the qualified needs to be in college. And the available slots should be based on the country economic growth.
Also universities need to cut the bullshit. You going to higher education to become a mechanical engineer? Then, there should be a set of classes specifically tailored to teach how to be a mechanical engineer. And so forth.
But at this point, there is so much wrong with our systems, that we are basically a failed nation...
This is where the education system needs a complete overhaul.
Not everyone is cut out for college. Most kids should be in a vocation program in HS and not college prep courses.
The restructuring of our economy that began with NAFTA and accelerated this century moved decent paying manufacturing jobs out of this country. Feminism has replaced men in the boardrooms and office space. Illegal immigration has flooded the trades eliminating more decent paying opportunity. Kids these days, especially white males, feel they have no other option than attend a university that they may not have aptitude for, if they wish to buy a home and raise a family.
These kids failing is predictable.
If you ran these HS vocation programs like an apprenticeship, these classes could actually build saleable products which would pay for the programs themselves. When I was in HS the building trades program used to actually go out in the field and build a house each semester. We need to think like this in education.
Agreed.
There should be admission testing for university. Only the qualified needs to be in college. And the available slots should be based on the country economic growth.
Also universities need to cut the bullshit. You going to higher education to become a mechanical engineer? Then, there should be a set of classes specifically tailored to teach how to be a mechanical engineer. And so forth.
But at this point, there is so much wrong with our systems, that we are basically a failed nation...