PhDeac
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Admittedly, I did not complete my thought. My point was that by promoting trades, apprenticeships, and jobs training we can reduce the demand for worthless degrees at overpriced universities. My Uber driver on Thursday is $300K in debt because of a law degree at a soon to be unaccredited law school.
I played football with plenty of guys that started working in various trades right after high school. By the time I finished law school they all owned their own homes and had families. At this point they’re starting to take over the businesses they worked at all with 0 debt.
Yeah. I’ve made that point several times on this thread with respect to high school career and technical education programs. I published a book and a few articles about it as well.
DeacMan, I don’t know why you ignored what I said about for profits. You’ve also ignored plenty of macro data that’s been posted over years of having these discussions on this thread. You’re also ignoring basic facts that informed people who engage in these conversations already have.
The basic math is that elite private schools giving loans to Black students who are underrepresented in those institutions isn’t the main cause for racial disparities in student loan debt. It’s overall income disparities (basically discrimination in hiring and wages) that render Black graduates less able to pay off those loans. Also Black students are overrepresented at predatory for profit institutions which are basically designed to siphon federal loan money for limited returns.