AFT President: Not Everyone Needs College

[Anonymous]

We should probably start to make rich people pay their taxes in America and sy away from the whole king peasant dynamic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An excellent interview with Randi Weingarten. We need to help all kids succeed and that includes non-college and apprenticeship options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0-ZMd-vHpw

Randi is also fomenting violent riots, and targeting innocent federal workers for severe bodily injury:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/asra-nomani-2-1-billion-machine-behind-spontaneous-anti-trump-protests

[Anonymous]

Trades are hard on the body but so is the violence that teachers have to deal with in public schools, 80 hours work weeks, the admin forcing teachers to fraud the numbers, and low pay; gimme a break

[Anonymous]

But college is the new high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An excellent interview with Randi Weingarten. We need to help all kids succeed and that includes non-college and apprenticeship options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0-ZMd-vHpw

Randi is also fomenting violent riots, and targeting innocent federal workers for severe bodily injury:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/asra-nomani-2-1-billion-machine-behind-spontaneous-anti-trump-protests

Absolute nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone pushing the trades over college is gong to regret it. Most Americans have historically been in the trades, but they wanted their kids to attend university instead - it was considered progress.

One day the tide will turn - trade work will become saturated, lose its luster, and people will wish for a better future for their kids.

Of course, but that's going to take a couple of generations to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I clearly remember Obama trying to push college on *every* kid. It was shocking.

Are you pushing college on your children? If so, why?

My kids are high class. Of course they will go to college.

Who uses the term “high class” anyway? Posers I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone pushing the trades over college is gong to regret it. Most Americans have historically been in the trades, but they wanted their kids to attend university instead - it was considered progress.

One day the tide will turn - trade work will become saturated, lose its luster, and people will wish for a better future for their kids.

No one can predict the future. Some might say liberal arts degrees are useless and should be eliminated. Right now parents are obsessed with math and STEM majors. If trade work looks like it’s becoming saturated then education will change with it.

[Anonymous]

Agree, college is not for everyone. If only she would understand that unions have destroyed public education.

[Anonymous]

College is not necessary for every job, but I think it can still benefit every job. I think the better talking point would be to promote more respect for degrees from community college, commuter programs, part time programs, etc. The issue today is that too many people are saddled with insurmountable debt- not that people are overeducated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone pushing the trades over college is gong to regret it. Most Americans have historically been in the trades, but they wanted their kids to attend university instead - it was considered progress.

One day the tide will turn - trade work will become saturated, lose its luster, and people will wish for a better future for their kids.

You are missing the point. There are many kids in college who don't have the intellectual chops, and it causes them to take on debt without a big payoff AND it causes colleges to downgrade expectations, which is not good for the kids who do have ability (and for our country).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College is not necessary for every job, but I think it can still benefit every job. I think the better talking point would be to promote more respect for degrees from community college, commuter programs, part time programs, etc. The issue today is that too many people are saddled with insurmountable debt- not that people are overeducated.

Except a lot of those programs don't really deserve a lot of respect. They are making up for deficits in K-12 education.