Here's my problem. We put out huge amounts of tax dollars to educate our children from K to 12. But as you point out, a high school education is not going to cut it in today's job market. We'll get around to the blind student in a moment.
So all our investment is nothing more than the first step toward a productive career. The jobs formerly held by high school graduates have been shipped overseas, often times along with the entire factory. So we have trick or treated our youth by removing the very jobs they might have taken in order to underwrite their further education or which would have enabled them to take their place in their community as productive citizens.
As a reward, we will now charge them for the privilege of obtaining the skills they will need to make a decent life for themselves and their families. Now we also present them with a great recession, which was not of their doing, but also a huge loan debt to begin paying off. If this is not insanity, just add to the mix a blind student.
Not only is the blind student faced with the same burden as his/her sighted peers but he/she also faces the additional barrier of prejudice and misconceptions about blindness.
Why is it that we are so reluctant to pay our children's education straight through to completion?
We are fast returning to those "good old days" when few people could afford to attend college. But in those days we had a nation of factories and manufacturing centers needing workers. Today's high school graduate is faced with three choices, go into debt and go to college, go into the service or join a gang.
Curious Carl
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