“One of the most damaging messages of educational romanticism has been that everyone should go to college.” – Charles Murray. Growing up neither of my parents graduated college, while it was a struggle to make their way into the job market due to the recession, they were able to do it. While my mother eventually went back to college, my father was able to find a job that didn’t require a college degree but was able to support a family of five. Nearly everyone knows someone who didn’t graduate college. Think about the person for a minute, and where they ended up. Sure on the news we hear the news about the college dropout who is begging for money on the streets, but some of the college dropouts in our everyday lives are some of the hardest working people. They have to work extra hard as someone with a college degree to prove their worth and many of them succeed. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, in October of 2016 69.7% of high school graduates were enrolled in college however, of those only 38.4% were actively looking for work or employed whereas 72.3% of high school graduates were employed or looking for work.
