I was in the Air Force.
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Today it’s so much more about what the degree is in:
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I would argue that bith the Federal and State DOE, are largely a waste of money. We should absolutely eliminate the Federal DOE!
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It’s a bureaucracy in search of something to bureaucratize.
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My husband and I have been talking a lot about preparing financially for after we are gone. We have, in the past, talked about providing money to our grandchildren for their college education. We are now thinking along different lines.
Any thoughts on leaving something for the kiddos to help them along besides college?
Trade school.
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The Mike Rowe school of practical knowledge. 
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Would that also be a micro-school? 
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I get my BS in Business with a major in Business Management and I already have an unofficial job offer with DHL after graduation next May. Did an internship last summer with them, was asked to return this summer, and my final review had the comment “Ray has extensive knowledge in the field that puts him ahead of his peers, we look forward to having him here in a full time role”. I spent about 7 years working in logistics before I got my AAS in Network administration, knowing how it is on the floor helped me see some issues they were having in productivity and was able to implement changes that have improved it.
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It wouldn’t have to be.
The reality is that there are only a handful of majors (largely STEM) offered in college today that can provide college graduates with a very good paying job. Part of High School education should be about showing students the various other ways to make a living:
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Any schooling outside the traditional four years of college:
That was a play on words.
Yep. That’s because STEM curriculum is by and large practical knowledge.
Well it looks as though employers are wising up to the fact that many of these Ivy League grads are nothing special!
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From your link:
the survey indicates a shift in this perception, with 33 percent of employers stating they are now less inclined to hire Ivy League graduates compared to five years ago.
That’s probably two-fold
1.) The Ivy league has largely abandoned its educational mission and become a left-wing social justice organization, specializing in such things as taking in second-tier minority students and spewing propaganda rather than teaching
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2.) In out STEM world employers more-and-more seek students with a strong background in specific skills (e.g engineers) and need correspondingly fewer students with a broadly-educated decision making mind.
As t the second part, I am kind of a fan of a “classical education” and its close cousin the “liberal art education.” I very much like the model where students take 2 years of classical/liberal arts course and 2 years of major-specific courses. Had that been done properly we would probably be spared some of the looney-lefty ideas of Zuck and Gates and (Google CEO) Pinchai.
Just “having a degree” isn’t what it used to be:
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