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by MajorLOL 3733 days ago
>My hope is as we increase the rate at which people finish high school and go to college

Woah, this is the logic that is getting us in trouble!

66% of people already go to college. Of those who go, only 50% graduate. So...

1) Does "college" matter or does learning a marketable skill mater? If we had 100% college enrollment and completion but everyone was getting a degree in native American studies, would we somehow be better off?

2) At what level of enrollment does it become more cost effective to simply extend high school 2-4 more years and just consolidate it?

College in its present form is in trouble because the lions share of college attendees are; white women, taking non STEM degrees, taking on federal loans, and having a lower workforce participation rate at the end of it.

College is about learning, not about what a huge chunk of it has become; safe spaces, community outreach, nice dorms, cafeterias, dating, fitness centers and generally taking a hiatus from life. We really need to redefine college in its present form, it is no longer what it was 50 or 100 years ago.

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> white women

> safe spaces

haha political correctness is so stupid right!?

> We really need to redefine college in its present form, it is no longer what it was 50 or 100 years ago.

The norm in Australia is to "take a break from life" for 2 years, living on campus, and then to live like an adult, buying groceries and cooking food for the final two years.

Most things are stupid when taken to extremes. Political correctness has jumped the shark at many schools.