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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county is the same, it’s the students that are declining and most of the schools in the county have hugh populations of kids that don’t care, don’t try or aren’t supported to be successful. The parents blame everyone but them selves expecting the schools to build young men and women instead of simply educating them. The schools spin into tizzies trying to handle the lowest common denominators and the kids with hope get neglected. The schools without a critical mass of these kids are doing fine and many others have little schools within schools to shelter the good kids leaving the middle class fight feverishly to get into the limited spots. All in the hope of graduating from a public school with distinction and not being hopelessly behind the rich kids who got pushed through the important privates.

This is the net results of the suburbanization of poor people and the over emphasis on white collar university tract with the false promises everybody can be a skill-less middle manager paper pusher and produce almost nothing. While there are professions cultured in colleges the vast majority of student have learned nothing except how to navigate a bureaucratic checks and balance system and stay off the radar. And will have to work decades for the privilege.  Enterprise car rental is huge/major employer of recent college grads, let that sink in.

The majority of people trying the feed their avg kids though a stacked system while thinking it’s everybody else’s fault when they get avg results is the problem coupled to a nation that doesn’t reward labor enough that most parents would even consider letting their kids work toward it unless they hit rock bottom. 
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This is the case.  The fact that except for maybe Doctor or Lawyer ( and even then ), people with advanced degrees in STEM median wise will get paid what truckers get paid and treated essentially the same, except there is a law that truckers can only work six fourteen-hour days, to make 100K.  Or you know like firefighters, bus drivers and what not.  Sure, for some people that are well connected to begin with all those years of education makes sense, but for most people return on investment is mediocre at best.  Reflecting on my career path as a kid that was highly motivated and scored very well on standardized tests had a free ride at an engineering school, I would have been better off without the advanced education.  Gosh I hate that phrase, "It's not what you know, it's who you know."  Heard that so many times after I graduated, while I was working three dead end jobs to pay rent.  Then layer on the corruption, students related to the teachers and professors getting preferential treatment.  Not to mention the poor quality of STEM education these days.  It's almost entirely H-1B, most of the professors are unintelligible in English. I definitely won't be paying a dime for any education, I'll set up a trust fund or invest in a house for my kids instead.[/quote]

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