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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Put these kids in the vocation track.  Their life would be much better and have marketable skills than graduating with a worthless degree and working for $15/hr in retail or hospitality.  Or even worst getting into trouble and in jail[/quote]

There are no worthless bachelor’s degrees. Average student debt for undergrad is low.[/quote]

These kids are not graduating.  If they get into college they are put in remedial classes, struggle, and have a high drop out rate.  Then they default on their loans or can’t pay it all back and get hammered on their credit rating.[/quote]

That’s “their” problem then. Who is “they”?

Sorry I am opposed to blocking poor kids from going to college. [/quote]

No one is proposing blocking poor kids or anyone else from college.  We are objecting to a system that lies to the child, his or her parents and the taxpayers by graduating people who cannot read, write or do basic math.  These kids deserve for the system to stop passing them along and find actual solutions to their academic problems much earlier.

And I am sorry, there are people for whom college is not the best choice.  They deserve viable vocational options, which can often outearn people with BAs.  My mind goes to an immigrant teen from our church.  Several of us tried to tutor him, as he was reading at the 2nd grade level in 11th grade.  We desperately tried to get him into Edison for training in one of the construction trades, but MCPS wouldn't let him because his Algebra grade was too low.  So, he graduated from his normal program with absolutely no academic or job skills.  Tell me how that is equitable.  [/quote]

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