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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not Kirk's fan but he does have some good points about not going to college and racking up student loans debt.  Several of my family members attended Ivies as full-pay, majored in social studies and graduated with 300K of student loans.  They are social workers and are on a income payment plan.

College is not for everyone.  [/quote]

This is why families have been crying for Congress to DO something about the college loan crisis.

Shameful Charlie Kirk is telling kids to skip college. He should be pushing Congress to address funding college or lowering interest rates instead. What a jerk. 
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College isn't for every kid.

People who espose that it is the only option are not being honest.

There is honor and dignity in enlisting in the military to delay college, entering into the skilled trades, going into beauty fields, going right into a job from high school, developing marketable skills like computer skills outside of college, various technicians and nursing assistance, office workers, becoming a policeman or firefighter, and other paths that don't involve a university education.

Heck, there is dignity and worth if you are a garbage collector, janitor or burger flipper, if you do it with pride and effort.

Not every kid should attend college.  Some should wait a few years, and others should go on other paths.

What I have noticed at my kids' high performing nova high school is that the kids who should be on other paths often end up lost in the shuffle, because the focus is almost solely on going to a 4 year university.  There are no longer trades classes at our school, so they just mentally check out and get almost nothing ftom school, or their parents have to fight every day all four years to get them to graduation.   We have to get back to a balance for the kids who aren't really college bound, so they are set up for success on an alternate path instead of failure.[/quote]

Charlie Kirk is not a firefighter. He is a deceitful propagandist.

Police Officers not having college degrees is a huge reason why USA police officers are the worst in the developed world. [/quote]

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