Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for March 23, 2009
March 22, 2009
March 24, 2009
Transcript:
Gracie: Look at this! This educational researcher says the pipeline that carries girls from kindergarten to college is full of bright, ambitious young women. Gracie: And the pipeline that carries boys is leaking badly Baldo: That's the stupidest thing! Baldo: It was the soda in my pocket!!
2023.
Decades of forcing American students to accept a mindset of “college or bust” has led to the skilled trades – plumbing / HVAC, heavy vehicle operator, carpenter, electrician, and so forth – being so critically short-handed that people who obtain the relevant certificates and enter into these career fields are practically guaranteed to not only have jobs but fairly high salaries.
This alone is enough for many young men to bypass college and go straight into the skilled trades, the promise of ready jobs upon completion of training.
Further “encouraging” young men to consider trade school is the large number of scandals and controversies surrounding many colleges, such as the violent protests at Evergreen State College in 2017, the threats of violence against a reporter during the 2015 / 2016 Missouri State University protests, and the allegations that the Obama Administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter resulted in campuses across the nation forming kangaroo courts that saw large numbers of young men have their lives ruined by false accusations of misconduct.
Throw in the whole “gig” economy where people don’t even need degrees to make money running deliveries, driving people around, or doing other such jobs, and the ever-increasing cost of tuition, and a lot of young men are just opting to skip college and either go into the skilled trades or unskilled “gig” positions.