Education Reform thread

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(09-22-2020, 07:08 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Also need to make trade schools more of a valid life path rather than portraying it as a place where kids not smart enough for college go. Years of "you'll need to know this for college" and "if you want to live a successful life, you need a college degree" vs a single day visiting a trade school as a Sophomore while it's painted in a mediocre-at-best light. Easy to see why there's a shortage of skilled trade workers. Also can't help but imagine it increases the number of people who go to college because that's why they've been told all their life they need to do, find out it's not right for them and don't finish the degree, but now have some student debt with nothing to show for it.

Have you considered that there are lots of kids in college who don't want to be, but are there because their parents want them there.

It's the parents especially who think in terms of value-added over a life time. 

My complaint about selling college as a higher level vo-tech is that it ignores and obscures what students are supposed to get from college that they cannot from a trade school. 

Education shouldn't always be just about job training.