Let’s be Honest DCUM Moms: Half of your kids should not be going to college

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None of your business.

[Anonymous]

OP does not understand the DCUM demographics.

[Anonymous]

President Trump agrees with you. Dept. of Education and Dept. of Labor are very anti-college right now.

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Anonymous wrote:President Trump agrees with you. The political appointees at Dept. of Education and Dept. of Labor are very anti-college right now.

FIFY

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Anonymous wrote:Bizzare post. What do you do for living? Where did your kids go to college and grad school? What jobs do they have?

One can only assume OP has taken their own advice and their kids are plumbers and pipefitters.

Not a terrible thing, in fact. In doing college research and reading the news, I have more than once wished DC had interest in and aptitude for a lucrative trade.

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Anonymous wrote:You’re a snob. My state u student is graduating with a degree in business and has landed some impressive internships and offers. There are lots of smart kids who choose a public education to graduate debt free. What matters is work ethic and what you make of the college experience while you’re there.

This is the key. So many kids going off to college with no plan other than to join a frat.

[Anonymous]

OP, what's your alternative proposal?

[Anonymous]

Rule number one of DCUM, never take a post seriously if it was posted while the east coast is asleep.

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Anonymous wrote:We need to stop looking at a degree as an automatic "upward mobility" button and start looking at it as a high-risk capital allocation. The data is clear. we have a massive surplus of low-value degrees and a labor market that is already starting to discount them. Unless your child is attending a top-tier target school where the institutional prestige acts as a hedge against mediocrity, they are likely walking into an underemployment trap. Johnny from State U is graduating with six-figure debt into a world that doesn't need another generalist with a "Business Administration" degree. We’ve flooded the market with credentials, and in doing so, we've rendered the mid-tier degree effectively worthless for anything other than basic administrative work. but no problem….at least they recorded their fair share of TikTok dances in their SEC sororities….
The "dumbification" of American higher ed is the quiet crisis no one on this board wants to admit. To keep the tuition checks flowing, universities have traded academic rigor for "student satisfaction" andt grade inflation. We are producing a workforce that can follow a rubric but lacks the cognitive stamina for first-principles thinking or problem-solving. While parents are busy comparing "Little Ivies," their kids are losing the ability to synthesize complex information without a digital crutch. We’ve turned college into a four-year delay of adulthood where students learn to navigate bureaucracy instead of mastering a competitive skill.
If you think the ROI is bad now, calculate the impact of AI over the next four years. If your kid is a freshman today, they will enter a 2030 job market where agentic AI has already cannibalized the majority of entry-level white-collar tasks. The "junior analyst" or "entry-level coordinator" roles that used to be the traditional starting point for college grads are being automated out of existence. We are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to train kids for roles that a $20 monthly subscription will do better and faster by the time they graduate. If your child isn't in the top 5% of their field or pursuing a specialized technical trade, you aren't buying them a future…… you're buying them a very expensive seat at a table that is being removed from the room….

Anyway…..keep it up….

If you rearrange DCUM it spells dumb.

Holy mother of stupid posts. We export millions of jobs to Asia because our politicians have sold American kids out. Plenty of jobs requiring degrees/higher level training.

And who is best qualified for those jobs? Because the corporations are multinational and not interested in your larlo's extracurricular passion project

[Anonymous]

Thank you for sharing your perspective.

[Anonymous]

You again? Being educated will always be a positive thing. Just because some fields are becoming saturated in no way means fewer people should continue their educations.

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Anonymous wrote:6:38 again, and it is not a financial decision. He has a well funded 529 and is currently in private school. Let that blow your mind, OP. Some pick this path because they want to, not because they have to. We are proud of him.

Your effusive support for his decision to attend trade school makes me think you might be proud of him but you aren't really that proud of him going to trade school. What kind of trade? And by private school do you mean a local Catholic school?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:6:38 again, and it is not a financial decision. He has a well funded 529 and is currently in private school. Let that blow your mind, OP. Some pick this path because they want to, not because they have to. We are proud of him.

Your effusive support for his decision to attend trade school makes me think you might be proud of him but you aren't really that proud of him going to trade school. What kind of trade? And by private school do you mean a local Catholic school?

I think it's just really hard for you to understand we give our kids an experience that does not have a ROI just because.

I mean, how many 2nd homes can you really have.

[Anonymous]

Well, a whole bunch will be SAHM's so clearly they don't need an education. /s

[Anonymous]

Has Charlie Kirk risen from the dead?