Maybe Don’t Send Your Kids to College?

Right now, most college students are wrapping up their semester/quarter and getting ready for the winter/holiday break. I was just on the phone the other day with a dear friend whose son has had a terrible first semester. Instead of trying to make him fit for college, we had a serious talk about if college was the right move for him. His grades were all over the board and he was struggling with some of his general requirements.

We managed to get him fixed up but I remember a time when our conversation would not have gone in that direction. In another day and time we would have worked harder to help him get through all four years and now in 2022, we are asking if college is even the right move. Perhaps there is another way to get him on his path without having to slog through academia as we know it.

In this video, we are going to learn a little bit about what some people call “The Great Dropout” or where Gen Z kids are choosing either to not go to college or give up on it. The advice from the internet for years has been to “go to trade school” with people bragging how they make more money than their college-educated peers. While this is more an internet trope than anything worth taking seriously, Gen Z has looked at their Millennial siblings and cousins and are making different moves.