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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a sad development. I mean, what do Americans expect? [b]There are way too many colleges in the US [/b]that aren't doing well, and were never good in the first place. Surely you don't want your kid going there. If you have a student who can't get into a decent college, you need to have them attend community college, then transfer to a better university. [/quote]

I agree with this, and I'll take it a step further - there are too many people in colleges.  We've promulgated the "college for all" mantra, and it's done many kids a disservice, leaving them saddled with student loan debt after attending bottom of the barrel schools, and being no more employable after graduation (if they do graduate) than they would have been otherwise.  Plus, now employers expect that applicants will be "college graduates" for all sorts of posts where it isn't at all necessary.  [/quote]

Would you be happy if your kid didn’t go to college? [/quote]

In my specific situation, no, but that's because she is a very smart and capable kid - honors, AP and IB courses, high ACT scores, etc.  In any era, she's a kid who should go to college.

If she were a mediocre student, I'd encourage her to pursue a different career path - learn a trade, for example.

But, your attitude is a perfect example of what I'm talking about - the (mis)perception that no kid can be happy or successful without going to college.  This promulgates exactly what is happening here - failing, expensive schools that don't alter kids' lives at all, except to saddle them with debt to start their lives.  [/quote]

Ah, so your kid is special and should go to college but other kids should not. [/quote]

Not special in the sense that she deserves it and other don't, no.  She's just in the academic cohort that is and always has been college bound.  There are lots of kids just like her.  Just as there are lots of C- high school graduates who are ill-served by spending 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars becoming C- college graduates who then have significant debt and get jobs that they could have gotten 4 years ago.  [/quote]

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