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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s very individual.  And many boys are tired of being stuck in a desk all day in school, and the idea of four more years of the same is painful to them.

So rather than an esoteric “are women more interested in college…” why not focus on *your* son and ask him if not college right after HS, what would he like to do.  Gap year of working?  Trade school?  Military?

My DH fell into the “but he has an A in Calculus!” trap and pushed our oldest into not just a four-year college, but also a STEM major.  Kid dropped out after one year to pursue what *he* wanted to do and has happily been doing it for nearly a decade.[/quote]

Yes we are encouraging women to go to college. In fact, how often do you hear alternatives to college for women? It's as if that's the only path for them. They can go to trade school, they can join the military, they can follow the same paths men follow.  I'm divorced and I didn't want to pay for my daughter's college because I could not afford it. But all my ex wife did was push our daughter towards college as if that was the only path. [/quote]

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