"Worn-out students choose a timeout; More take break before college" by Tracy Jan, Boston Globe | July 19, 2010
The students say they desperately need a timeout after spending their high school years building impeccable credentials for entry into selective colleges. And more admissions officials, concerned about student burnout, are encouraging the high-achieving teengares to step off the traditional path as a way to fuel their creativity and long-term motivation by taking a "gap year" between high school and college to see the world.
How about you, readers?
You have enough $$$ to take a year off and see the world?
Sometimes they never come back to school.
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Well, not really; only if you want to pay $5 for the agenda-pushing PoS.
I can't; I gotta go to work.
"Educators push a college alternative; Intense training in fields among options debated" by Jacques Steinberg, New York Times | May 23, 2010
NEW YORK — What’s the key to success in the United States?
Short of becoming a reality-TV star, the answer is rote and, some would argue, rather knee-jerk: Earn a college degree.
It sure is!
You tell people you are going to school and they always say good.
My next word to them is why?
They never have an answer.
The idea that four years of higher education will translate into a better job, higher earnings, and a happier life — a refrain sure to be repeated this month at graduation ceremonies across the country — has been pounded into the heads of schoolchildren, parents, and educators.
Yeah, WHO DID THAT, MSM?
But there’s an underside to that conventional wisdom....
Once again the New York Times reaches the point of agenda-pushing insult.
A small but influential group of economists and educators is pushing another pathway: for some students, no college at all....
Yeah, the enlistment office is right over here!
The economic crisis has sharpened that focus, as financially struggling states cut aid to higher education.
Hmmm. Makes you wonder how that crisis just happened.
Among those calling for such alternatives are the economists Richard Vedder of Ohio University and Robert Lerman of American University, political scientist Charles Murray, and James Rosenbaum, an education professor at Northwestern.
Isn't Murray the racist author of the Bell Curve?
Related: The Genetic Origin of Ashkenazi Genius
Aren't those the same guys calling for slaves based on exclusion from college?
They would steer some students toward intensive, short-term vocational and career training, through expanded high school programs and corporate apprenticeships....
Can you say directors of the New World Order?
College degrees are simply not necessary for many jobs.
Then why does every place I go want a college degree for a job in the mail room job?
Of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate over the next decade in the United States, only seven typically require a bachelor’s degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Among the top 10 growing job categories, two require college degrees: accounting (a bachelor’s) and postsecondary teachers (a doctorate). But this growth is expected to be dwarfed by the need for registered nurses, home health aides, customer service representatives, and store clerks. None of those jobs require a bachelor’s degree.
I wasted so much money!!
Vedder likes to ask why 15 percent of mail carriers have bachelor’s degrees, according to a 1999 federal study. “Some of them could have bought a house for what they spent on their education,’’ he said.
Or done something else productive with it!
Lerman said some high school graduates would be better served by being taught how to behave and communicate in the workplace.
Are you an ANIMAL to be TRAINED, kiddo?
Related: Back-to-School Series: America's Economic Development System
That is how the ELITE JEW seems to view you!
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Then again. have you seen the kinds of kids the schools are putting out these days?
They could use some time digging a ditch.
