Let's put aside, for a moment, the notion that humanities degrees don't get people jobs (they most certainly do!). College, in the minds of most employers, is nothing more than an extension of high school: an institution to suit the needs of children where early education failed. A college degree in most cases is acquired for the sake of being economically competitive, even for jobs that would otherwise not merit a four-year degree and a lifetime of debt. So punishing non-STEM students for not studying STEM (itself becoming an increasingly convoluted and specialized set of fields, especially as math and science are concerned) isn't optimal here. Enabling high schools to actually give students the skills they need, rather than sending off these failed products of our high schools to rot in even more nerve-racking institutions, is.
But no - all of these ideas are terrible, of course.
They don't have to go to STEM , they can go into the buisness field as well which has many degrees which can get people good paying jobs ( Accounting, Finance , Management, Marketing ) .They can also attend a trade school as well which will be more funded in this plan
Business degrees are pretty pointless, too. In fact, my parents (my dad had a Bachelor's in Economics, and my mom had a tech school degree) were able to run a small business together for more than a decade. Before that, my father worked as a software programmer for a large confectionary company. My mom's degree is no longer useful because the computers she learned to fix are long obsolete.
The takeaway here is that most of the job skills you need are given to you, on the job. And since most Americans change jobs - what, six times? - it's baffling to me how eight or twelve years of institutionalized learning are inherently more valuable than four years in a decent high school.
So the problem here isn't that some students major in biology while others major in English, it's that having an English degree is necessary to keep a person from being """""unemployable."""""
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