There's an emerging generational divide on attending college after high school.

New survey data from the nonprofit American Student Assistance shows that teen interest in college is down while interest in nondegree paths is on the rise.

Meanwhile, parents are skeptical of options outside the traditional college pathway to work.

Nearly half of all students surveyed – 45% – weren’t interested in going to college. About 14% said they planned to attend trade or technical schools, apprenticeships and technical boot camp programs, and 38% were considering those options.

66% of teens surveyed said parents supported their plans to pursue a nondegree route, compared with 82% whose parents encouraged them to attend college.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    611·
    1 day ago

    I never said that boomers did not benefit from it, I said that they didn’t set it up that way. They benefited, exploited, abused, and left nothing for those to come after, but they didn’t set it up themselves.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
      71·
      23 hours ago

      So when boomers came into the workforce they did not need college degrees to get ahead. After they had gotten ahead and were in charge, new employees started needing college degrees to get ahead.

      And you think they didn’t set it up themselves? If they didn’t, who did?

      • 001Guy001@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        20 hours ago

        After they had gotten ahead and were in charge

        Chiming in that I do agree with this specific sentiment. I think the issue with your overall statement is that it seems to imply that all boomers did this, while it only applies to the ones that got ahead. The system we’ve been living in for ages has been creating and rewarding cutthroat psychopathic/sociopathic tendencies - so it absolutely makes sense that the people that rose up in the economic ladder abused their position accordingly.

        • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
          1·
          19 hours ago

          Yes, clearly not all boomers did this. My dad didn’t go to college and is the trades. He isn’t making any rules about people needing college.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
        12·
        22 hours ago

        I’m all for hating the boomers. If you want to blame the disappearance of American manufacturing and the weakening of organized labor on Boomers, I’m all for that. They availability of higher education for the masses to the point where a college degree became a barrier to entry is something that came about thanks to the prosperity boom after WWII. Remember yuppies? Those fuckers were boomers enjoying the advantages their parents and socialist reforms laid at their feet.

        So no. Boomers didn’t make college a barrier to entry, but they did milk their good fortune and left very little for those that came after them.