Angry Toddler

It already is.

I am mot sure if you know that the monetary cost of college excludes the many of Americans from this education, or you are a troll.

Troll, if knowing there are ways to get that education if you want it makes me a troll then I guess I'm a troll. My kid worked his way through community college as do many. College is a good time to start learning how to work for what you want in life.

What you are saying is that your kid was lucky enough to find a job that paid enough and allowed enough time for school and and studies without your help. That is still not available to all American youth.

Let me get even more personal, I have 2 stepsons, the oldest worked hard in high school and earned a full scholarship to a state university. While there he somehow managed to find work to help get him through school. His one screw up was letting a girl get in the way in his last year and he ended up just a few credits short of graduating. Because he did have a hard time finding work that he wanted he joined the army. He is now 7 years in, completed a degree and raising a family. It didn't all go by his plan but he has gotten from life what he was after. The younger didn't make the grades his brother did but went to work at a more menial job and paid his way to an associates. He used that to get a job with a major bank as a teller and worked his way up. he is still working on his bachelor's degree while working a full time job. Due to divorce all that was really available to him as far as help was a roof and food. Neither got handed a free education. All American youth have the chance for the education, they just have to decide where their priorities are. You can stand on the sidelines and whine that you never got the breaks the other guy got, or go out and make your own. Real life is about priorities, I don't care where you live.

You say work hard, but you have to be smart also. Smart kids get work easily, but most kids are of average intelligence and finding work at that age is tough. It is truth when I say you must be privileged to go to college.

Then maybe college is a bad way to go for them, if they don't have the intellect or the drive. Trade schools are a lot less and graduates are out making a living wage usually well within a year, then if college is still a goal they have the means. The military is another way to accomplish the same goal although even the military will not take the same f-ups they did 20 years ago. I would take this whole education thing another step further. Grades 11/12 should be earned in high schools with passing grades, There are far too many in the school systems now that could care less about being there. I say open the trade school route up to kids that have completed 10th grade (at appropriate age levels) and give them a skill they can earn with, instead of keeping them in a school they do not want to be in, creating issues that that cripple the education of those who want to be there.