Are we sending too many unprepared/underprepared students to college?

[1NJParent]

@MWolf

The problem is that kids from wealthy families who are underperforming because they have weak academic skills will still get through college and be hired into higher paying jobs

If they have weak academic skills, why are they allowed to go through college in the first place? Is it because the college offers some pseudo “academic” fields of study so they could major in, since they don’t care (or need to care) about whether such majors lead to a job or career? Or is it because there’re just too many classes where a B is literally the lowest grade a student can possibly get?

@MWolf

However we must be able to differentiate those kids who are really not interested or talented at academics versus those difficulties with academics are due to their family situations.

I’m all for that.

@MWolf

There are also many students who have academic potential, but were really to immature at the ages of 15-17 to focus on high school academics

Why not let them go to college when they’re ready?