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greenjar_01

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2. Fewer students (percentage) go to college in most of those countries

Wed Apr 27, 2022, 09:10 PM

Apr 2022

You are tracked into college or trades fairly early, and that tracking sticks. Relatively few are tracked for college, which is probably as it should be. I would agree with you if you considered college or trades both eligible for subsidies, and we had a well-established system to do the tracking. It's really an ideological problem, though, because we have misrepresented what college is and decided that anybody should be able to succeed in college. The result has been a disaster: a general dumbing down of college curriculum along with clownish infantilization of students, which we somehow combine with ceding of trades (to conservatives).

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Time to subsidize 100% college educations for public universities. ... [View all] aggiesal Apr 2022 OP

Most 1st World countries don't send as many people to college as we do. brooklynite Apr 2022 #1

Fewer students (percentage) go to college in most of those countries greenjar_01 Apr 2022 #2

Indeed, and so to some extent, online programs are making it worse Redleg Apr 2022 #5

How do you decide who gets to go and who doesn't? TuskMoar Apr 2022 #3

Before Ronnie Reagan was governor here in California ... aggiesal Apr 2022 #7

Why haven't any succeeding governors reinstated it? MichMan Apr 2022 #11

Strict entrance exams iemanja Apr 2022 #10

I support partial subsidies Redleg Apr 2022 #4

That will never sell on this site. MerryBlooms Apr 2022 #6

I don't know why not, most of us went through public schools through 18 years old ... aggiesal Apr 2022 #8

Agreed obamanut2012 Apr 2022 #12

Most first world countries do not do it iemanja Apr 2022 #9

And many do obamanut2012 Apr 2022 #13

Do you also know iemanja Apr 2022 #16

vocational training too MissMillie Apr 2022 #14

How are costs reduced, or do colleges get to charge whatever they want? MichMan Apr 2022 #15

Giving tax breaks to billionaires is wrong. BlueCheeseAgain Apr 2022 #17