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It’s flat crazy that we are continuing to modify our educational system to push out more high school graduates when numbers and our poor record at landing big employers show we need more college graduates.
https://michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/some-labor-market-facts-you-wont
Sounds like we’re getting rid of traditional high school, which has served us well for generations. Gotta keep the taxes low!
You sure it’s served us well the past 10 years? We can’t ignore that kids are changing. Doing the same thing as 30 years ago just doesn’t make sense. They need marketable skills, and that’s not always a college degree.
Traditional high school does not fit every student. There are many students with technical aptitudes, challenges with traditional learning, and career interests that simply don’t fit into the traditional high school model. Forcing them into a one size fits all approach leads to dropouts, underperformance, and is a failure to the students that do not have the capability, interest or means to go to college.
I have a son with a learning disability, and he would have thrived in workforce training program. Instead, he was forced through a curriculum that did not meet his needs and his self-esteem and general outlook on life suffered. I’ve met many students through youth groups that were left out because of the current one size fits all approach. Fortunately, my son went to Ivy Tech and flourished in a welding program. He now has a good paying job doing something that he enjoys and succeeds.
Big employers are needed without question, but we also need the small employers that ultimately employ great numbers. A balanced economy needs skilled tradesmen like welders, electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, carpenters, and a multitude of other skilled professions. It is narrow minded and lacks a realistic understanding of macroeconomics to assert that a college degree is required for all.
Leave it to Indiana to focus on the final years of secondary education (when frankly a student who is still in school may not yet know what he or she wants to do when they grow up) instead of providing our kids with a program that is proven to make a huge difference in the education: Universal Pre-K.
Why do our legislators keep ignoring this obvious route to a better ROI in education?
1. I have not read the proposal. 2. I’m sure it’s far from perfect. 3. When potential employers speak about Indiana, they talk about a ‘qualified workforce’ – these are skilled jobs but not necessarily college educated jobs – if the plan is to create a more skilled workforce at the high school level then I don’t think that is a bad thing – why pay for college if you don’t need it? 4. Ed Delaney should not go into stand-up comedy but he deserves a medal for living with Ann.