/---- First let's see how well they did with their FREE public school education
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They don't need two more years, they just need to stop teaching college prep to every student regardless of their academic abilities. Algebra and chemistry are fine for kids going on to college. I remember when if you didn't get good grades, colleges wouldn't let you in. Now colleges run a full range of remedial classes for students who aren't ready for college. Then why are they going? Our system is all screwed up. Government sticking its nose in and insisting every kid get a college education because of its earning power was a bad idea. They have no idea what the reality is.I think we need to teach kids what they need to get a job in H.S. even if it means adding 2 more years.I agree with most of you. Free is not good when it comes to education , we need to do something to cut down on college costs and books. I am amazed when kids graduate from high school and have no idea what they want to be, its one thing to change majors, but another to not even have a clue to what they want to study.
We need better HS and grade schools.
Way back they used to offer free college in NYC and in California. Went the way of the dodo bird, but it has been done before.This is very surprising....
I wish it was nation wide.
They don't need two more years, they just need to stop teaching college prep to every student regardless of their academic abilities. Algebra and chemistry are fine for kids going on to college. I remember when if you didn't get good grades, colleges wouldn't let you in. Now colleges run a full range of remedial classes for students who aren't ready for college. Then why are they going? Our system is all screwed up. Government sticking its nose in and insisting every kid get a college education because of its earning power was a bad idea. They have no idea what the reality is.I think we need to teach kids what they need to get a job in H.S. even if it means adding 2 more years.I agree with most of you. Free is not good when it comes to education , we need to do something to cut down on college costs and books. I am amazed when kids graduate from high school and have no idea what they want to be, its one thing to change majors, but another to not even have a clue to what they want to study.
We need better HS and grade schools.
The extra 2 years would be either college preparatory school or trade schools. Not everyone can be a business exec. Not everyone can fix air-conditioners.They don't need two more years, they just need to stop teaching college prep to every student regardless of their academic abilities. Algebra and chemistry are fine for kids going on to college. I remember when if you didn't get good grades, colleges wouldn't let you in. Now colleges run a full range of remedial classes for students who aren't ready for college. Then why are they going? Our system is all screwed up. Government sticking its nose in and insisting every kid get a college education because of its earning power was a bad idea. They have no idea what the reality is.I think we need to teach kids what they need to get a job in H.S. even if it means adding 2 more years.I agree with most of you. Free is not good when it comes to education , we need to do something to cut down on college costs and books. I am amazed when kids graduate from high school and have no idea what they want to be, its one thing to change majors, but another to not even have a clue to what they want to study.
We need better HS and grade schools.
NYC has brought it backWay back they used to offer free college in NYC and in California. Went the way of the dodo bird, but it has been done before.This is very surprising....
I wish it was nation wide.
Youngsters who graduate from high school without an educational plan leading to a foundation for employment have not had the benefit of a comprehensive guidance program.I agree with most of you. Free is not good when it comes to education , we need to do something to cut down on college costs and books. I am amazed when kids graduate from high school and have no idea what they want to be, its one thing to change majors, but another to not even have a clue to what they want to study.
We need better HS and grade schools.
"free" = from the wallets of Tennessee taxpayers; mostly hard working, middle class citizens who worked their way through college.I think they are doing it assbackwards and it will simply cause the rates of tuition to go up.
Secondly, not everyone needs a college degree. Some simply need training in a vocational skill.
Training which they can get for free at their local community college in TN now.
People tend not to respect things they are given as much as those things they've earned. I'd rather see states find ways to reduce education costs than to simply reach into Other People's pockets and give away their money.
"free" = from the wallets of Tennessee taxpayers; mostly hard working, middle class citizens who worked their way through college.I think they are doing it assbackwards and it will simply cause the rates of tuition to go up.
Secondly, not everyone needs a college degree. Some simply need training in a vocational skill.
Training which they can get for free at their local community college in TN now.
People tend not to respect things they are given as much as those things they've earned. I'd rather see states find ways to reduce education costs than to simply reach into Other People's pockets and give away their money.
"free" = from the wallets of Tennessee taxpayers; mostly hard working, middle class citizens who worked their way through college.I think they are doing it assbackwards and it will simply cause the rates of tuition to go up.
Secondly, not everyone needs a college degree. Some simply need training in a vocational skill.
Training which they can get for free at their local community college in TN now.
People tend not to respect things they are given as much as those things they've earned. I'd rather see states find ways to reduce education costs than to simply reach into Other People's pockets and give away their money.
"free" = from the wallets of Tennessee taxpayers; mostly hard working, middle class citizens who worked their way through college.I think they are doing it assbackwards and it will simply cause the rates of tuition to go up.
Secondly, not everyone needs a college degree. Some simply need training in a vocational skill.
Training which they can get for free at their local community college in TN now.
People tend not to respect things they are given as much as those things they've earned. I'd rather see states find ways to reduce education costs than to simply reach into Other People's pockets and give away their money.
Disagreed, but I can see how my views piss off those who think they have a "right" to the money in other people's pockets."free" = from the wallets of Tennessee taxpayers; mostly hard working, middle class citizens who worked their way through college.I think they are doing it assbackwards and it will simply cause the rates of tuition to go up.
Secondly, not everyone needs a college degree. Some simply need training in a vocational skill.
Training which they can get for free at their local community college in TN now.
People tend not to respect things they are given as much as those things they've earned. I'd rather see states find ways to reduce education costs than to simply reach into Other People's pockets and give away their money.
Your position is "leeching was good enough for George Washington, so it is good enough for everybody else"
Ah hah!They don't need two more years, they just need to stop teaching college prep to every student regardless of their academic abilities. Algebra and chemistry are fine for kids going on to college. I remember when if you didn't get good grades, colleges wouldn't let you in. Now colleges run a full range of remedial classes for students who aren't ready for college. Then why are they going? Our system is all screwed up. Government sticking its nose in and insisting every kid get a college education because of its earning power was a bad idea. They have no idea what the reality is.I think we need to teach kids what they need to get a job in H.S. even if it means adding 2 more years.I agree with most of you. Free is not good when it comes to education , we need to do something to cut down on college costs and books. I am amazed when kids graduate from high school and have no idea what they want to be, its one thing to change majors, but another to not even have a clue to what they want to study.
We need better HS and grade schools.
How about this. The government is the automatic underwriter of all student loans and the student loans companies force the government to create as many students and as many loans as possible for their annuity portfolio investors.
That must take a load off your mind, knowing your kids can go to college tuition free.They just raised gas tax while lowering grocery tax and income from stocks.
I haven't heard anything about this though
The problem with extending mandatory education is the age group you're dealing with. A LOT of students are ready to be done with it by the time they're 16. They are becoming adults physiologically and hormonally, are chafing for independence. Many of them can make a good wad of cash doing this or that (around here fishing is very lucrative) while most of them have other things on their mind than the Scarlet Letter or physics. So two more years of high school would be almost impossible to hold them. Most voc tech programs in high schools begin in their junior year and prepare them for entry level work or to enter a trade school. That works fine. Why add two more years of what a lot of kids see as game playing?The extra 2 years would be either college preparatory school or trade schools. Not everyone can be a business exec. Not everyone can fix air-conditioners.They don't need two more years, they just need to stop teaching college prep to every student regardless of their academic abilities. Algebra and chemistry are fine for kids going on to college. I remember when if you didn't get good grades, colleges wouldn't let you in. Now colleges run a full range of remedial classes for students who aren't ready for college. Then why are they going? Our system is all screwed up. Government sticking its nose in and insisting every kid get a college education because of its earning power was a bad idea. They have no idea what the reality is.I think we need to teach kids what they need to get a job in H.S. even if it means adding 2 more years.I agree with most of you. Free is not good when it comes to education , we need to do something to cut down on college costs and books. I am amazed when kids graduate from high school and have no idea what they want to be, its one thing to change majors, but another to not even have a clue to what they want to study.
We need better HS and grade schools.