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Correction. It would make more sense to allow high school students to elect vocational school as a substitute for their junior and senior years.The SAT has no "passing" requirement. You get a score, and you get slotted in, but even people who do miserably get into SOME college.
In Germany you have to PASS it. Its called the Abitur.
Abitur - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
From the wiki on the German education system.
Would you rather that all colleges exclude those who YOU feel don't pass muster? What would be the purpose of that?
The point is made to compare Germany paying for university for students vs. the US. In the US since anyone can pretty much get into College the cost would be far greater, and the return far smaller.
And considering I don't create or grade the Abitur, the comparison is not valid that you made of ME making the choice.
I think Colleges need to not be considered a mandatory stop for a persons education. We already have too many college graduates doing work below their "skill level" mostly due to the fact that a lot of the degrees being earned have only application in a limited number of academic or research professions.
It is not true that in America anyone who wants to go to college can. A large part of what restricts one from going to college is the cost. Obama wants to change (at least make a start) that by making community college attendance free. Why is this a bad thing for college students (particularly for those who otherwise wouldn't get the opportunity to attend)?
because once you take out the cost factor people will decide to do it "just because" and we will have more people with useless degrees wondering why they are doing jobs beneath them.
It would make more sense to make vocational schools free, as those are the skills we are currently lacking in sufficient numbers.
As for paying for CC, handing out scholarships to everyone with tax dollars is not free, it's just stupid.
I would go for that as well.