Drabble by Kevin Fagan for August 20, 2021

An ironclad reasonable argument…..

He’s got a point. ;D

Do you mean the money that he’ll have to use to support you until you find out what you want to do with your life, Norm?

No sense throwing pearls before swine. (Sorry Norm.)

Every parent should have a discussion with their high school kids to discuss what he/she wants to do for a living. Then choose a higher education venue (whether college or trade school) that can best provide the skills and papers needed to make a successful start in that career.

If your kid is good with tools and wants to work on cars, then put him on track to be a top-notch mechanic. The good ones make good money. Don’t force college on someone who won’t actually make use of the classes or the degree.

Of course, Norm is Norm. If his best abilities will lead him to serving ice cream out of a truck (honest work, but probably not very lucrative unless you own the business), then you might as well forget all the higher education and teach him to drive a truck.

Ok, if he’s not in college or trade school, he needs to get a job and pay market-rate rent to his parents.

Get a marketable skill; get a job. College is unnecessary to success, and the way colleges are run these days, often seem to hamper success, offering a multitude of unmarketable “soft” degrees that cost more than they’ll ever pay out for the overwhelming majority of the people that get them.

Now he’ll think about all the money wasted on tuition.

You shouldn’t be going to College, unless you have a plan to do something with the education you are going to receive, which you don’t apparently. Now what?…..

College is not job-training. Nope. College is about broadening one’s outlook on life. In the process, we learn to do independent critical thinking. That’s the essence of college.

My dad only half joked that I could have gone to trade school much cheaper and with job opportunities.

you gaved up too easily.

Ralph has HIS priorities straight.