why is it ingrained in every high schoolers head to go to college?

absolutely agree. it's not that i'm anti college (i'm in college so i better not be haha) but i think people kinda make it seem like you have to go to college. seems like everyones just following the herd and just going to college because they think theyre supposed to. if you dont have the drive to go to college youre really just wasting your time and money. i agree, kids should definitely explore other options....trade schools, or just starting off with a job right away or something. i understand a lot of people "take a year off" and then never end up going back...but i don't think people should feel pressured to do something they dont want to do or arent ready for. yeah a degree will help you earn more money...but if someone doesnt want to do the extra schooling people shouldnt butt into their lives and tell them theyre making a huge mistake or whatever. it shouldnt be the end of the world if a kid says theyre not ready for college right away...or if they never want to go.

Well its not a bad thing. But it makes a lot of debt. I am currently in the UK and its almost standard to have a degree, so it defeats the point in having one.

I am an apprentice with no debt, the company i work for has paid for me to go and get a HNC and i now have enough money to buy a house.

Im an electrical engineer, i earn £20 an hour. Most of my friends who have a degree dont earn that. Most earning £5 an hour on minimum wage.

I dont have a degree and i am regularly looked down upon for not having one. Yet i earn more than those looking down upon me.

I belileve that fewer than half of the students who enroll as high school freshmen attend college, and good guidance counsellors won't direct students that way if it isn't right for them. However, since all the teachers have college education, most of them view anything less as a failure. It's form of prejudice, or you might think of it as a means of justifying themselves.

In today's society, a high school education is rarely enough, but there are many viable non-college alternatives.

A lot of the better-paying jobs require a degree. Engineering, for example, requires one, though experience also plays an important role.

each little thing that occurs in intense college will structure who you're, yet to boot ignore about each little thing when you graduate! courting in intense college has wide probabilities of falling aside after grad. pay attention of pranks in Senior year Drama contained in the school is unnecessary and is no longer worth interest. those who gown up like this is a way coach take college too heavily

All the best paying jobs require a degree. If you want to limit yourself to 35-40,000 a year for life, then you go right ahead. I want more money than that.

I think we measure success in this country by how much money people make. And to make the most amount of money it is believed that you need to go to college.

I disagree. I think it's more important to be happy and there's lots of happy people who aren't paying back thousands in school loans because they only have a high school diploma.

Because if you don't go to college you'll be EXTREMELY LUCKY to make over $30,000 a year, and that's after you get settled in a job for a while.

My first year out of college I made over $150,000 dollars and bought my own house.

if they stressed those things, kids would think they shouldn't be going to college. college is a good thing for students to continue their education, why shouldnt high schools stress that point? if it comes time for the student to head off to college and they feel it isnt for them. then they can make that decision for themselves.