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Originally Posted by kane
The problem isn't the cost of college, but being sold college as a necessary device for success. A friend of mine's daughter graduated high school last year. About halfway through her senior year she signed up to go into the Air Force. Even with that done, she had a class that forced her to apply to two colleges as part of its curriculum.
In recent years kids are being told that the only way to get a good job is to go to college and some of them rack up a huge amount of debt for a degree that will not really help them land a good job right out of college.
Another thing we have to take into consideration is that the economy sucked (and still isn't great). So a lot of kids got out of high school and went to college because they thought they likely couldn't get a good job right out of high school. They hoped the economy would improve while they were in school. Now we have a huge influx of college graduates, many of which have semi-useless degrees, and they are flooding the market and still unable to find those good jobs.
If a person wants to study something that requires a degree or they just want a degree in general, there are plenty of ways to get the degree without getting much debt if they are willing to do the research and take the steps needed to get it done.
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No, the real problem is that college "sell" bullshit degrees which guarantee jobs at Sears home improvement department at best. All of those sociology, pottery design, forest preservation degrees are scam. How many fresh out of college sociologists this country needs? Educate your kids about college as soon as they start thinking about it. Just because you like swimming with turtles and dolphins in Cancun doesn't mean you need to go for "marine biologist" degree. You need to tell them that after graduation they are going to be wiping penguin shit off the floors of Oklahoma City's zoo and not swimming with dolphins in Samui. I had this redneck friend in college who loved hunting and fishing so after wasting 3 years in college he finally picked some park ranger shit. 3 more years passed by and we called this guy up to see if he wants to go on hunting trip and have sort of reunion together. guess what? He can't because he's making 22K a year and fucking stuck somewhere in Arkansas state park - 6 years of college.