College is Not the Answer

 By Kelly Bridgewater

Our college system is not working. (I do this does not apply to ALL universities.)

Our high school system is not working.

Majority of the students admitted to college cannot write an essay. They cannot do simple math in their heads. Then the colleges have to dumb down the education to re-teach these basics, before moving forward. Then by the time the students earn the Bachelor's Degree, they are where they should have been when they graduated high school.

College is such a joke anymore.

Not everyone HAS to attend college.

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Our students are not anymore educated when they arrive.

A lot of them are failing out the first semester. Then they beg and plead to stay. The school allows them to stay. They earned all F's, but go ahead and give them the degree.

I do not want a doctor to work on me who barely made the grades.

Then you make the college students like me who graduated with my undergraduate degree with a 3.85 out of 4 and my Masters with a 3.70 out of 4 look like an idiot because my degree is from the same place.  

NOT EVERYONE HAS TO ATTEND COLLEGE.

Blue collar jobs like working for the electronic or gas company. Plumbers and other skilled labors are making more than college graduates.

But nobody wants those jobs.

How about you? What do you think of our college system?