February 13, 2018 09:25AM
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About 20 years or so ago there was a story about a girl who's parents paid over $200,000 for her education at Stanford University. (She is now employed as a legal secretary.) In my line of thinking her parents should have spent that money on buying her a house and had her get her job skills at a community college, and she would have benefitted much more from that..
My wife has a masters degree in family therapy and counseling, yet because she isn't bi-lingual very few jobs are available because there are so many kids are pushed into a liberal arts education that know Spanish. The number of graduates to jobs available ratio is way out of wack, and yet millions of good paying technical jobs go unfilled because society looks down at the people who enter those fields.
The time has come for college and high school counselors to wake up and realize that while they are protecting their own jobs, they are pulling a dirty trick on their students by only pointing them to college, putting down any other educational options, because "IF" the students even graduates, (the dropout rate of the freshman class at many 4 year colleges can be horrendous) there are hundreds of applicants for very few jobs. Many of students graduating college today are saddled with high college debt, and are struggling to find good jobs after graduation. I asked several of my counselors at my school how many of the students they send off to college stay long enough to get a degree, and they had no idea. (One guessed that it was less than half).
Universal Technical Institute tracks their graduates and over 90% are employed in their field. While the quality of the job is up to the quality of the student, how many colleges even come close to that track record?
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