“Not College Material”, or 50 years in Higher Education

[roethlisburger]

@JHS

In the world we currently live in, we have done such a poor job of elementary and secondary education for children who live in non-affluent areas that graduating from high school is practically meaningless as a credential (unless you happened to have graduated from one of the high schools where all of the graduates should go to college). Basic reading, arithmetic, and communication skills are being taught in college because they aren’t being learned in high school or earlier. So, yeah, until further notice pretty much everyone should be going to college unless they have a clear, personal path to economic self-sufficiency without going to college.

I’m not sure I agree high schools are as bad as you say. Let’s assume they are. In that case, we should fire most of the teachers at these places, which are so bad you have to go to college to learn what should have been taught in middle school. Make all public school teachers at will employees.