In Rural America, Fears About The Future Abound As Fewer Students Go To College

[Guno צְבִי]

It's driving a dramatic drop in the proportion of students going on to college, threatening the already precarious economies of rural areas and widening their socioeconomic drift from urban and suburban America.

The number of rural students filling out the federal application for financial aid, a sign of whether they're even considering going to college, has plummeted by more than 18%, the National College Attainment Network reports. That's worse than the also alarming nearly 16% drop among urban students. The numbers are down even more in largely rural states including West Virginia (32%), Louisiana (30%), Mississippi (26%), Alaska (24%) and Arkansas and Oklahoma (23%).


Those figures include huge declines among dual-enrollment students, who get a head start by taking college classes while they're still in high school, suggesting that future numbers may be even worse.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/24/94803...i3Ryikia3vSmMc

[BidenPresident]

It's driving a dramatic drop in the proportion of students going on to college, threatening the already precarious economies of rural areas and widening their socioeconomic drift from urban and suburban America.

The number of rural students filling out the federal application for financial aid, a sign of whether they're even considering going to college, has plummeted by more than 18%, the National College Attainment Network reports. That's worse than the also alarming nearly 16% drop among urban students. The numbers are down even more in largely rural states including West Virginia (32%), Louisiana (30%), Mississippi (26%), Alaska (24%) and Arkansas and Oklahoma (23%).


Those figures include huge declines among dual-enrollment students, who get a head start by taking college classes while they're still in high school, suggesting that future numbers may be even worse.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/24/94803...i3Ryikia3vSmMc

From the other side, universities will be losing tuition paying students. Bad all around.

[BattleofHodow]

It's driving a dramatic drop in the proportion of students going on to college, threatening the already precarious economies of rural areas and widening their socioeconomic drift from urban and suburban America.

The number of rural students filling out the federal application for financial aid, a sign of whether they're even considering going to college, has plummeted by more than 18%, the National College Attainment Network reports. That's worse than the also alarming nearly 16% drop among urban students. The numbers are down even more in largely rural states including West Virginia (32%), Louisiana (30%), Mississippi (26%), Alaska (24%) and Arkansas and Oklahoma (23%).


Those figures include huge declines among dual-enrollment students, who get a head start by taking college classes while they're still in high school, suggesting that future numbers may be even worse.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/24/94803...i3Ryikia3vSmMc

Is it true that Jewish women smell like Gefilte Fish?

[Guno צְבִי]

Is it true that Jewish women smell like Gefilte Fish?

polack goyim are pork stenched

[BattleofHodow]

polack goyim are pork stenched

I heard Jewish women have bigger matzo balls than the men.

[T. A. Gardner]

Since when did getting a college degree become the be-all, end-all of success in life? These kids could easily do as well or better learning a skilled trade and later take some college courses they like and can pay for without going deep in debt. There are many trades jobs that pay as well or better than ones gotten with many college degrees. To push the idea that the only path to real success is college is such a lie it should be outlawed.

[BidenPresident]

Since when did getting a college degree become the be-all, end-all of success in life? These kids could easily do as well or better learning a skilled trade and later take some college courses they like and can pay for without going deep in debt. There are many trades jobs that pay as well or better than ones gotten with many college degrees. To push the idea that the only path to real success is college is such a lie it should be outlawed.

Okay, don't go to college. No one cares.

[Guno צְבִי]

Since when did getting a college degree become the be-all, end-all of success in life? These kids could easily do as well or better learning a skilled trade and later take some college courses they like and can pay for without going deep in debt. There are many trades jobs that pay as well or better than ones gotten with many college degrees. To push the idea that the only path to real success is college is such a lie it should be outlawed.

Unskilled and semiskilled goober jobs requiring just a high school diploma have long gone, as so the companies in rural podunk towns

[RB 60]

Since when did getting a college degree become the be-all, end-all of success in life? These kids could easily do as well or better learning a skilled trade and later take some college courses they like and can pay for without going deep in debt. There are many trades jobs that pay as well or better than ones gotten with many college degrees. To push the idea that the only path to real success is college is such a lie it should be outlawed.

"55 School Drop Out Billionaires Without College Degrees"

https://www.profitableventure.com/sc...entrepreneurs/

How many WWII veterans quit school to join the military, then came home and started or managed very profitable businesses?

[T. A. Gardner]

Unskilled and semiskilled goober jobs requiring just a high school diploma have long gone, as so the companies in rural podunk towns

Yea, tell that to the electrician, plumber, HVAC guy that comes to fix your stuff and hands you a bill with $50 an hour for labor on it...

[BidenPresident]

"55 School Drop Out Billionaires Without College Degrees"

https://www.profitableventure.com/sc...entrepreneurs/

How many WWII veterans quit school to join the military, then came home and started or managed very profitable businesses?

Or used government money to pay for college.

[RB 60]

Or used government money to pay for college.

You don't think those WWII vets who came home from the war deserved a little help since they quit school to fight for our country?

[T. A. Gardner]

Or used government money to pay for college.

The GI bill and the like were part of the enlistment contract. That is, it was pay-in-kind, not a handout. It wasn't a grant for doing nothing, it was payment for service rendered.

[BidenPresident]

You don't think those WWII vets who came home from the war deserved a little help since they quit school to fight for our country?

I implied no such thing.

[BidenPresident]

The GI bill and the like were part of the enlistment contract. That is, it was pay-in-kind, not a handout. It wasn't a grant for doing nothing, it was payment for service rendered.

Nice try. Fail.