Re:Who's Missing from America's Colleges? Rural High School ...
by coldtea on Friday February 23, 2018 @10:31AM
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>Most jobs don't require higher education. Most jobs that do require higher education don't actually make any use of the higher education. Are people who didn't follow the author up the ivory tower all failures who just fell through the cracks?
Isn't those questions irrelevant to the issue the author poses: the lack of access to higher education of people from rural backgrounds.
That they can still get employed at "most jobs (that) don't require higher education" (which includes McDonalds), doesn't mean much. Do they get the better deal, or do their higher educated peers do (even if that education wasn't "really needed" by their future career)?
Isn't those questions irrelevant to the issue the author poses: the lack of access to higher education of people from rural backgrounds.
That they can still get employed at "most jobs (that) don't require higher education" (which includes McDonalds), doesn't mean much. Do they get the better deal, or do their higher educated peers do (even if that education wasn't "really needed" by their future career)?