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My niece is one of those struggling students. Just isn’t taking to online learning and she never had a problem with school before. We were talking about how she always cooks up a storm and that maybe she could go to culinary school. Then You think- oh. Restaurants aren’t doing so hot nowadays...
Which made me think, whole professions are suffering because of the COVID economy- this could be a reason some potential students don’t want to go to college. I’m sure the expense of college isn’t worth it to some if they know they will struggle to find work in their profession for years.
It really is driven by profession. I am going back to school for either nursing or social work- two fields experiencing a boom because of this situation. Sadly, when I was working in the homeless population, I said we’d have no shortage of clients in this era, and I was right.
The fact is, colleges have been out pricing many students for about ten years now, and this is just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Lower income students were barely hanging on since prices have risen over senseless things like studio dorms or new entertainment centers. It became more about competing for which campus could offer the most amenities and less about trying to educate the most students to transition people out of lower income statuses- isn’t that what state universities were partially designed for?
It really upsets me, because as a low income student who used college to get to where I am in life, I want to see others have the same opportunity. That’s part of the reason I mentioned joining the military in an earlier post- it certainly helped me pay for it, and it gave me experiences and veterans preferences that helped me land my first professional job.
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* Winter * "Apart" of isn't the right term...it is " a_part_of"...
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