Pre-Super Tuesday Presidential poll

That is true pretty much across the board. When I went back to school for X-ray I looked at a number of the Allied Health fields. At that time, the most difficult to qualify for was Physical Therapy, which was harder to get into than Nursing. The lowest GPA that got into my Radiography class was a 3.79.

I looked real hard at Respiratory Therapy, but that required a couple of consecutive quarters of microbiology, and my biochem wasn't all that strong. I went X-ray instead, which required radiation physics, so I'm not entirely certain I came out ahead, but I passed.

 

I agree with you. But that's not what students have been told for years. They've been told they can't get a good paying job without a college degree. And employers have set their standards to that level.

We need to completely rethink higher education in this country - help direct more people to skilled labor that doesn't require a four-year degree, take a number of programs and turn them into two year studies (journalism, media production, IT being some of the big ones), and reduce the overall cost.

But we can take a huge first step toward that by at least reducing, if not outright wiping away, student loan debt. It is crippling entire generations.

 

In many cases, an employer requires a college degree not so much for the subject matter as for proof that the applicant has the intelligence and work ethic to get one. If they can do that, they can do the job.

 

Which is a fallacy in and of itself. Lots of people coast through college, get a degree, and have zero work ethic to speak of.

 

Which is quite true, but still proves that they didn't major in skipping class, chasing sex, and drinking/drugging, at least not to the point that they couldn't pass their classes. It's a poor gatekeeper, but it is cheap and easy to use as a first step in screening applicants.

 

I might have misunderstood the way they work, but aren't there degree programs in Canada that are essentially two- and three-year intensive vocational training without the deeper academics U.S. universities require?

 

Cheap for the employer, not for the prospective employee. If that's all this is, some $50K/year smoke-and-mirrors game to make some hiring representative concede "OK, you're not a total jackoff," then we need to just blow it up.

 

You’re on to something here.

 

Warren in a battle for fourth tonight. Media’s choice struggling

 

Christ, you're incredibly dumb about this. She's never been the media's choice. The media, which is owned by giant corporations, is scared to death of her.

 

And 10 people on the NYT editorial board is not "the media," lest that be your half-assed retort.

 

It was just last week that Warren's followers were bitching because she was being repeatedly left out of polls and coverage.

"Media's choice." Heh.