Just finished “The Debt Trap” - recommend, and expect to be angry after you read it.
Comment on Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No this is Republican bs. We’ve all been sold the idea that college is only for earning more money, so anything that threatens that means we have too many people going to college?
Think about how long it’s been since 12 years have been the expected base level of education. I’m not going to look it up but it’s been a long time. Now think about how society has changed, even within your lifetime. It’s gotten way more complicated, being able to think has gotten more valuable. everything has gotten more complex, from voting to bill paying to transportation to pretty much every job. How can we really think the same base level of education is ok?
Current politics is a great example why our base level of education needs to be raised.
Let’s add two years to everyone’s education. We already have the institutions: community college, trade and votech schools, apprenticeships, etc. It’s about time that further education becomes expected. Learn a job, learn to think, improve your potential, while also improving your ability to exist in our society, and improve our society overall. This is our future. This is one of the roads to make america great. Everyone needs 14 years of school as a base level and we will all benefit
My state made those extra two years free for most people, to improve overall public education. Time to make it so for everyone
PodPerson@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m very aware of the student loan crisis but disagree the answer is less college, less education. That’s just stagnation, regression, decline. It’s important to our country, our society, individuals, to have more and better education.
Nor is the answer just fixing an exploitive and extractive industry profiting from student loans, although yes we need to.
The answer is less student loans. This is where focussing on two additional years as the base education is critical. We can refocus on cheaper options than standard universities, and we can leverage government investments in its people, to improve everyone’s education with no student loans
PodPerson@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Definitely was not suggesting less college / less education, just that the idea of telling people that they must have a college education and that the only way to do that is to incur a mountain of debt is in need of some readjustment.
crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
I totally agree— in Colorado where I’m from most HS students can take community college classes for free— which is a start, and perhaps more palatable to the average boomer than — “free college” even if it’s sorta the same thing with extra restrictions.