re: Scales tipped against college?

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Change plumbers with welders, and you've got it. Also, you need some type of degree to be an operator.

AP classes in high school are harder than most college classes. College has been gradually dumbed down to a 10th or 11th grade level. I know two people from HS that went to LSU, but were in remedial math classes. That's like 5th grade math.

Your freshman and sophomore years are basically high school extended. Nothing new is learned in 95% of programs during that time if you had a good foundation in high school.

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I don't know about AP classes in HS being harder than college classes and as for as college being dumbed down, I am not sure if that is accurate. It really depends on what major you are in. If you major in general studies maybe it has, but if you are engineering it seems like the requirements today are more challenging than before.

Isn't college an extension of HS to some degree? For the most part I think the first two years of college is to weed out people. Its not really a bad thing that you have to take classes that you might not take if you had to decide for yourself, its good to have an understanding of different subjects.