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>Americans have been placing less importance on the value of a college education over the past 15 years, to the point that about a third (35%) now rate it as “very important.” Forty percent think it is “fairly important,” while 24% say it is “not too important.” When last asked to rate the importance of college in 2019, just over half of U.S. adults, 53%, said it was very important, but that was already lower than the 70% found in 2013 and 75% in 2010. Meanwhile, the percentage viewing college as not too important has more than doubled since 2019 and compares with just 4% in 2010.

Archive: https://archive.today/ok8j2 From the post: >>Americans have been placing less importance on the value of a college education over the past 15 years, to the point that about a third (35%) now rate it as “very important.” Forty percent think it is “fairly important,” while 24% say it is “not too important.” When last asked to rate the importance of college in 2019, just over half of U.S. adults, 53%, said it was very important, but that was already lower than the 70% found in 2013 and 75% in 2010. Meanwhile, the percentage viewing college as not too important has more than doubled since 2019 and compares with just 4% in 2010.
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Good, not everyone should go to college. High school should have trade apprenticeship training available (even required) for all students, even the 'college track', so that there's actual skills, not just students leaving high school on a dumbed down grade school curriculum that gets everyone a high school diploma and then they go to college to learn their algebra for the first time.

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The vast majority of new college students end up taking "remedial math" and "English/Writing". Its sickening. You should not be able to "graduate" highschool if you can't do basic math, reading/writing, etc...

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I never was much into setting goals for myself. I didn't get much encouragement from my parents for anything. I did set a goal to get a college degree, for a couple of reasons, because no one in my family had one and I had the GI Bill. Use it or lose it! I managed to get Associate and Bachalors Degrees from a local Junior College and a respected Christian University. I never mentioned to anyone that I am an Atheist and I even made As in the required Bible classes! LOL No one in my family congratulated me or even mentioned my accomplishment. It didn't matter, I didn't do it for them anyway. I did get promoted to Supervisor at my place of employment. Thanks for reading my rant.

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Well, Congratulations on your achievement! It is not for everyone but that does not mean that no one should do it. Be proud of your hard work and effort. Don't let anyone take that from you even if you only did it because you wanted to or wanted to make a point.

Random internet bro gives you a fist-bump for your rant.