Indiana actually has seen a decrease in the percentage of high school students who attend college. Too many people here have anti-education views. The idea that everyone should be in a skilled trade and college is for brainwashing is sadly common.
I actually agree with this. I think there's always going to be a large and critically important place for jobs like doctors, lawyers, and scientists who need college, but there are also many important jobs in service and manufacturing that don't require college.
I also think high schools nationally can and should do a better job at letting students begin to explore in high school. Most high schools/states have arbitrary set curriculums with little room to explore anything else. However, my public high school for instance offers everything from Flight School to Linear Algebra to Green Building Construction to Cyber Security and it gives students a bit of room to explore what they want to go to college or if they even want to go to college. This is a public high school that recieves below-average funding and is mostly middle class or underprivileged kids. No reason other schools couldn't if we as a society placed more emphasis on education.
