Originally posted on 01/14/2017:

Quote Originally Posted by Mac4Lyfe View Post
First off, a high school education is not good enough. We need our kids to go on to higher education and catch up to other countries who are kicking our ass. We need to dominate technical sector jobs and that demands higher education. 2nd we have to fix the system so that our kids realize that they must compete in a changing world that has become more global. Our kids do not cherish education as much as others which is the problem. Stop being entitled and get an education. Fewer and fewer kids are getting masters and Phd's. While Asians, Africans and Indians are coming into the country and getting them and getting the higher level jobs.

Education is never a waste. Studying meaningless subjects and getting useless degrees can get you unemployed though. We need to tell kids what to study instead of them getting useless Bachelor's degrees. There's a lot of trades that kids can study for but they are not being coached properly.
High school, at this point, is only used to get people into college. A high school education would be enough if we quit wasting time teaching people mostly useless crap like PE, painting, Shakespeare, etc. If we taught thing like coding, HVAC, plumbing, etc in high school much of college wouldn't be needed. Get government out of the college business and watch the amount of future student debt plummet.