I just read a census figure

[debilorrah]

Same here - I never even fished high school and now I am the Office Manager for Victor Valley Transit Authority. Good position, good benefits, good people.

 

[jnjross]

hs and one year of nursing school , hated it so much didnt bother to take the board exam,

dh has an AA and tech cert.

 

[kodiakchicken]

I have a Bachelor's, husband does not. Neither does my brother or either of my parents.

Out of the 10 people in my office only 5 have degrees.

 

[Chicabee19]

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Especially for girls???

A woman is the very first teacher of every child ever born.

A mother should "cultivate a sense of dignity as well as a responsibility for the well-being of the family, community, and the world."

When women truly enjoy equal status with men, and our girls and women are educated to the highest degree, peace will reign and wars will cease.

 

[greyhorsewoman]

While I only got as far as high school graduate (with lots of OJT to expand my employment marketability), we did get hubby back to college in his 30's for first an Associates' degree and then a Bachelor's.

Daughter has Bachelors & Masters; son just finished High School, but is computer wizard.

 

[setter4]

I am actually surprised that they say 27% of the population HAS a BA or more. Is that nationwide?
In my area i would say it was even less than that.
DH and I neither one have a degree. I have some misc. credits but nothing that adds up to more than fun. lol
I think it depends on where you are and what you want to do as to how important higher education is. DH was born in this business and knew his entire life what he wanted to do. He is a brilliant man but didn't need a degree to do what he loves.

 

[1acrefarm]

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Especially for girls???

A woman is the very first teacher of every child ever born.

A mother should "cultivate a sense of dignity as well as a responsibility for the well-being of the family, community, and the world."

When women truly enjoy equal status with men, and our girls and women are educated to the highest degree, peace will reign and wars will cease.

There is no especially in equality.



I was actually surprised the numbers were that high.

 

[silkiechicken]

I can imagine that. I'd thought it would have been lower for a country wide demographics actualy.

I have my BS, and am going for my PhD... Out of my entering HS class of 800(?) students, 290 graduated with their HS degree. Of those, maybe half went on to more school at most?

I go to campus and when I hang out with my college friends, and pretty much live there, it's easy to forget that school beyond high school isn't the norm. But I know people who didn't have the funding, or largely any desire to go... And without a desire to go, don't go and waste your time and a spot for someone who wants to go. They found their niche and have regular jobs. I won't have a "real income" or "job" till I'm nearly 30. A decade or more later than some of my aquaitences who started work right off the bat. It's what you want to do and if you don't need to go to school to do it, you don't have to.

More school isn't right for everyone, and the most important thing is if you want to go. People make the best of what they are driven to do, if that is to be more school or entering the workforce. The key for me is to DO something.

As for women and education... I'm female. Why should I be given a free education while my brother has to pay for it? I work hard and can do it, why do other women not have to do the same?

 

[Chicabee19]

There is no especially in equality.

I didn't say anything about "equality"...

"equal status" is a much different thing.

It will take a great deal of effort and probably several generations if we start right now toward bringing women up to even half their due status in most parts of the world.​

 

[BethinIrving]

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You are absolutely correct, MissPrissy. I was part of a group who met with local Community College officials to explain how their failures were impacting Corporate America. They refused to accept anything anyone stated.

What we have now, are college and university graduates who cannot achieve what those with little to no education in the past were able to achieve. We are graduating the incompetant and dumping them on society.

Our hospital care is in the toilet, infections are rampant, patients are dying of things unheard of ten or twenty years ago. Corporate America is likewise impacted with unfit managers and an equally unfit and untrained workforce. The workforce is even being forced now to pay for their own job training, all the while the business gets tax breaks for running a revolving door of hiring people and firing people over and over, so they can get that $4,000 tax break for every "hired" person and make it appear they are "creating jobs" when they aren't.

I have a friend who owns several retail establishments. He has one test for all applicants. They have to read a clock and tell the time. Only one in 30, he says, can do that correctly.

In D.C. our Educational Department was joined with the Chamber of Commerce, obviously thinking it would raise educational standards. The opposite happened. Corporate America and everything the Educational Department touched was dragged into the pit.

To educators, it is not the student that is important. They are running the same ol gig they've run since the 70's -- gulp up the tax money, build larger and larger (not smaller) schools, blame the parents for failures, and call the teachers "professionals who can park out front".

I don't buy any of it, and neither should anyone else. The American people are being deliberately dumbed down so a pithy excuse could be used to promo more immigrants entering America. The claim is that we "don't have the professionals".