College vs Trade School “Debate”

Uh, the arrogant academic left shite on blue collar folks all the time

Shitting on the ones who didn't go to college, IMO, is more silent. It's in the way people are treated. In the same regard, I think a lot of people who didn't go to college feel a little insecure. Definitely not one size fits all.

If you're a plumber, electrician, HVAC guy, etc you have all my respect because you're actually doing something tangible that is keeping this whole thing going. All I'm doing is making sure our private books are in balance.

I wanted to make $200k out of trade school and didn’t want to hear queer professors talk about gender studies and CRT. Trade school was an easy choice for me.

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but you rarely see college grads shite on the ones that did not go to college

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This is daily when you question why a contractors price is so much and are they ripping you off.

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You always see people who did not go to college shite on college degrees

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depends on which degree.

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but you rarely see college grads shite on the ones that did not go to college

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actually i do see that, but it's usually some dumbass with a sociology/lgbtqwtf degree that doesn't know their arse from a hole in the ground. when someone doesn't understand anything, if you appeal to their vanity, the dumb ones will go with w/e makes them feel "empowered".

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you rarely see college grads shite on the ones that did not go to college.

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bullshite. We've done it on a local, state, and national level for a couple decades or more now.

Trade school is clearly more superior

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but you rarely see college grads shite on the ones that did not go to college

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Because they shite on us at work and don't like to talk about it so HR won't find out.

There shouldn’t be a debate and there isn’t one universally correct answer

Different people require different avenues for success. The fact that people think that everyone needs to do it ‘their way’ just blows my mind

This is true on this board just not in the rest of the world

Because this board is largely college grads who see the value in trades.

But as mentioned, most of us won't send our kids to trade school, which means there is still some latent bias there. For me personally, I think it's the idea that trade school is valuable but it is limiting, to an extent. And for most of us, for most of our lives college wasn't particularly limiting (a decent degree from a decent school could see you to a productive career in a number of areas).

It may not always be like that, perhaps it's already not like that, but I think most of us would still opt for directed (ie, a productive, useful, substantive major) college over trade school for our kids.