“No one ever talks about high school,” said Maria Guerrero-Suarez, the mom of two students at Curie High on the Southwest Side. “It feels like we are a forgotten group.” At stake are significant gains Chicago has made in recent years in high school graduation rates and college preparedness. Already, district officials say they are unsettled by a 20% dip in the number of college applications submitted by district students this fall.
Good grief. College applications are down because people are wising up to the fact that college isn’t the economic panacea it is being sold as. Whatever salary premium one may get with a 4-year liberal arts degree is offset by the 4 years one isn’t earning any money. Even a 25% salary premium with the degree takes 10 years of working to make up the lost earnings. And that is assuming someone else is paying the college costs! Also, the virus paranoia has kept a lot of workers over 50 out of the workplace (part-timers especially) which has opened up… Read more »
And most red-pilled Gen Z’s know that college is nothing more than a trillion dollar subsidy for leftist professors to force their online students to engage in CRT struggle sessions. A relative of mine, who likely would have gone to U of I in any other era, enrolled in online community college instead, and dropped out after a few weeks. But he’s White, so no one cares that he’s from a poor white family, with no family wealth, and suffered and endured major hardships in his life, no one cares. Equity doesn’t apply to him, unfortunately. I used to get… Read more »
We would also have far fewer of the angry young people who think the system screwed them because their degree in ethnic studies isn’t worth anything in the real world. They are out “protesting”, instead of directing their anger at the education system perpetuating the fraud.
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Tomorrow we’ll will find her final offer was “whatever you want”.
https://www.wnd.com/2021/02/covid-19-cases-drop-40-since-last-week/
Why is this story all but ignored…?
Good grief. College applications are down because people are wising up to the fact that college isn’t the economic panacea it is being sold as. Whatever salary premium one may get with a 4-year liberal arts degree is offset by the 4 years one isn’t earning any money. Even a 25% salary premium with the degree takes 10 years of working to make up the lost earnings. And that is assuming someone else is paying the college costs! Also, the virus paranoia has kept a lot of workers over 50 out of the workplace (part-timers especially) which has opened up… Read more »
And most red-pilled Gen Z’s know that college is nothing more than a trillion dollar subsidy for leftist professors to force their online students to engage in CRT struggle sessions. A relative of mine, who likely would have gone to U of I in any other era, enrolled in online community college instead, and dropped out after a few weeks. But he’s White, so no one cares that he’s from a poor white family, with no family wealth, and suffered and endured major hardships in his life, no one cares. Equity doesn’t apply to him, unfortunately. I used to get… Read more »
We would also have far fewer of the angry young people who think the system screwed them because their degree in ethnic studies isn’t worth anything in the real world. They are out “protesting”, instead of directing their anger at the education system perpetuating the fraud.