Originally Posted by
leaningright
I still encourage my students to go to college. For some I recommend Tech School. Others I still steer toward the military. I fight against a culture here that encourages the guys to go right to work and the girls to marry and make babies immediately. Some (One young lady from church and her husband come to mind) do OK and get their degrees/eventual jobs as well as marrying and making babies along the way, but it is so tough without supportive parents and extended family.
A sad testimony is that for the past 5 years, out of the 10 valedictorian/salutatorian kids, only 4 have gone on to college. The rest are married and making babies. They'll do OK but it just seem they have chosen such a difficult life for themselves from the get-go. This is one pattern of culture that this guy who loathes change wouldn't mind changing.
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