[fmatthew5876]

White American kids don't want these jobs. "We're a nice white family and our kids deserve to go to college". Especially for people coming from marginal backgrounds, sending your kids to college is seen as an achievement and part of the American Dream. High class successful people go to college and low class losers go to work out of high school. Those dirty jobs are for "other" people, not us.

How many of your friends would be happy if their kids became an electrician, plumber, fire fighter, or police officer? These jobs can pay well but nobody wants to do them. You don't need an expensive college degree either, just vocational training. Thats much better than your starbucks barista with 60k student loan debt on her photography degree.

Not everyone needs to go to college. In fact I think it would be better if we killed the stigma against the trades and integrated vocational paths with public high schools. College is academia, and its only relevant if you're going into the sciences or some other highly technical skilled arena or the arts. Sorry but not all of your children are special and gifted.

To many kids going to college, getting expensive useless degrees, and then having little job prospects and a load of student debt. Not to mention the increased demand these people bring inflates college tuition for everyone else.