Originally Posted by Guest

Today, colleges have seemed to convince everyone that their kids need to go to college. Some kids are not and never will be college material. We do need craftsmen and tradesmen and people can do very well in those fields.

I taught at a college for 15 years and I would say that at least half of my students should never have been accepted into college. Twenty-five percent shouldn't have been allowed to graduate high school.

The education system has become a vehicle for teachers and administrators to get rich.

I worked with a kid that had a bachelor's degree in journalism. He was selling shoes in a golf store and refused to take any job that wasn't as a sports journalist.

I have two boys. One is a senior software engineer and has done very well in college and in life. The other is an auto mechanic he might make more money than his brother.

I know a guy that also has two boys. One did very well in school and graduated college with a degree in journalism. The other went to trade school and became a plumber. The plumber is 29 and just bought his own house has a fancy sports car and a motorcycle. The boy with the degree is 27 and lives at home with his parents while covering high school sports, part-time, for the local town newspaper.

Former Secretary of Education, Bill Bennett said that the Dept of Education should be abolished and that education should be the job of the states. I think that would be a good start in fixing this problem.