I’ll continue: Colleges have been shutting down at accelerated rates for last decade. Why? Lower enrollment, lack of funding, less donations. But why? 18 million kids going to college now but why with population booms (Generation Z was a mini baby boom) – why are so many fewer of them going to college now? The message they’ve been receiving their whole lives is different than ours. We were told to go to college. They’re told to “get a trade”. Trade Trade Trade is the messaging they keep hearing and so many of them are in low-end jobs because, well, there’s not a whole lot of trades either but the window for college entrance doesn’t stay open too long after high school and by the time they realize it, they’re stuck out. Trades aren’t inherently right-wing at all – traditionally mixed – but the messaging has primarily been coming from the center-right and right for years to stay way from college, focus on making money, good job, good trade.

Lower enrollment, lack of funding, less donations. But why?

18 million kids going to college now but why with population booms (Generation Z was a mini baby boom) – why are so many fewer of them going to college now?

The message they’ve been receiving their whole lives is different than ours. We were told to go to college. They’re told to “get a trade”. Trade Trade Trade is the messaging they keep hearing and so many of them are in low-end jobs because, well, there’s not a whole lot of trades either but the window for college entrance doesn’t stay open too long after high school and by the time they realize it, they’re stuck out.

Trades aren’t inherently right-wing at all – traditionally mixed – but the messaging has primarily been coming from the center-right and right for years to stay way from college, focus on making money, good job, good trade.

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