More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by sjostrom7 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:15PM (#29925310)

You're probably also more able to work if your folks make enough money to have a stay-at-home parent (so you don't have to watch your younger siblings), buy you a car to get back and forth from your job, etc. Without seeing how they actually did this study, I'll go ahead and chalk most of this up to generational privilege.

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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by rurp on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:57PM (#29927466)

Hmmm I'd want to see some data on this before drawing any conclusions, because my anecdotal experience is the opposite. The poor teenagers I knew pretty much all had jobs, in large part because they needed the money. Their only option to be able to buy new clothes or a used car was to earn the money themselves. Well off kids didn't have that same sort of pressure.

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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by throwawayboise on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:28PM (#29926385)

My first job as a teen was delivering newspapers (not sure that's really an option anymore, though). I also cut lawns in the summer. All of that was on foot or bicycle. Didn't have a car until I was 18.

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