TC Talks wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:48 pm
The only exception is manufacturing and it's not what I would call a growth industry.
Michigan to give free community college tuition to eligible residents 25 and older
(WXYZ) — The State of Michigan announced a program that will give any Michigander who is 25 or older the chance to get a tuition-free associate degree from a community college or skills certificate.
I respectfully disagree. I think a good tradesman will be able to get work in any state for the rest of his and her life. Someone who went thru a one or two year trade school to learn how to be a good mechanic or electrician/electronics technician. Someone that learned how to work on industrial or retail heating and cooling.
And I'm not sure that going thru a community college is going to help them. Learning to be good at a trade isn't about two English classes, a political science and some other non-technical elective that you have to take to graduate.
I'm not sure of other colleges, but Wayne County Community College (where the inside joke is if you get you name right on the test, you'll get a B) has the nickname of Detroit High School by a lot of people. It's where Detroit Public School kids go if they actually have a bit of gray matter between their ears. Unfortunately, those same kids "dumb down" the curriculum because quite frankly their cornbread ain't usually done in the middle, if you know what I mean. But there's an unspoken understanding that even the mutants have to graduate. I'm honestly not being nasty, everything I'm saying is the truth. Please if there is anyone on here that went to WCCC, please pipe in and agree or disagree with me that most 8th graders outside of Detroit already have a better education that most Detroiters that graduated from WCCC.
I can't speak for your neck of the woods, or Oakland or Macomb or outlying areas. I can only speak for Wayne County. And I know the previous paragraph comes across as a rather mean and rotten thing to say. But like I said, I hope there is someone from the 'burbs on here that went to Wayne County. I'm fairly confident they will agree with me.
And along the same vein of "dumbing down" the classes, I ponder how many Septuagenarians and Octogenarians are going to be filling seats in the free classes just for something to do, with absolutely no intent to go back to work.
I'll be totally honest with you, I'll be looking at what they got to offer.. Not with the intent to go get a career. Maybe something like how to work on cars, or play an instrument, or painting, or some silly thing like that. I won't have any intention of going and getting a career as an automotive mechanic or concert pianist.
But will I be squeezing someone else out of a seat that really should be there?