Comments on: High schools may have to pay for unprepared graduates

By: Patrick, Higher Ed Leaders Disagree on Cost of New Graduation Plan

Patrick, Higher Ed Leaders Disagree on Cost of New Graduation Plan — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:38:41 +0000

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Skeptics: Profit and education don’t mix | — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:30:05 +0000

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Schools and for-profit managers don't mix, skeptics say | The NewsMag — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:06:17 +0000

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By: Ken Rowley

Ken Rowley — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:16:21 +0000

Is the employer that hires a college graduate going to hold the college or university accountable for all of the training that they have to do in order to get their recent college graduate ready to do the job they were hired to do?

By: Kirtland Stout

Kirtland Stout — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:51:21 +0000

This entire discussion is based on a false premise: that every high school graduate is somehow entitled to enter and attend college or university. That has never been the case before, so why should it be the case now? Let’s step out of our delusions and honestly face a few facts about people, incentives and education:
1) When students fail, it’s rarely the fault of their schools and almost always their own fault and the fault of their parents. Good parents work closely with their children to ensure that they succeed in school.
2) Not every person is destined for a university education.
3) Many jobs are available for those without college learning and training. If a person doesn’t want to discipline him/herself to go to college, they are telling us they want one of those jobs that does not require the degree. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that.
4) Many young people, after working a few years in the jobs spoken of in 3) above will finally gain the maturity to discipline themselves to the extent that they are then able to obtain a college education through their efforts and sacrifice – which is the way everyone else gets their college degree.
5) Let us in the United States stop pretending that we are under the European system. In Europe (I lived in Germany five years of my adult life.) there is a wall of finality between the University types and all others. Once assigned to the non-college track, few, if any, breech the gap and ever enter a university. But here in the United States hundreds of thousands of those who were not on a college track in high school find the will and discipline sometime afterwards to enter, study and obtain the coveted college/university diploma. It’s the American way. Millions of Europeans describe America as “the land of endless possibilities,” by which they mean educational and other opportunities.

So if a child is not ready for a college education right after high school, let’s — in the American spirit — continue to offer them opportunities, but cease thinking that they are somehow deficient if they don’t earn that degree. A university degree is something special; it is not a right, and is not a piece of wallpaper that everyone is entitled to.