I hate to see high school graduations now

catmandu57

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Mon May-08-06 02:37 PM
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I hate to see high school graduations now

especially here. There is so little opportunity for the kids here, our industrial base is gone, the only factory jobs are going to someone who knows someone or is related.
Some of the kids will go to work farming, but, that's drying up, some will be able to go on to college, some for a semester anyway.

That leaves the military as a way out, it's so eighteenth century, the military as a last resort.

This sucks.

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xmas74

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Mon May-08-06 02:38 PM
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1. It's the same w/ my town

but the military holds an even bigger push since the base is so close.

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maxsolomon

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Mon May-08-06 02:43 PM
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2. farming will come back

as the fuel runs out.

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slackmaster

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Mon May-08-06 02:44 PM
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3. The best way out for most people is a college education

It's been that way for a long time around here. People who go into the work force with only a high school education are often doomed to a life of poverty, unless they start up a business and succeed at it.

My girlfriend's 17-YO daughter just graduated from HS. With her biological father's permission she married her 20-YO boyfriend. The two of them moved to a tourist town in Colorado, thinking they could get decent-paying jobs.

She called her mom yesterday. They'll be moving back to San Diego, where a minimum wage job pays a lot better than a service job in Cañon City. I hope she sees the light and enrolls in college.

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catmandu57

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Mon May-08-06 03:10 PM
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4. It is, but,

many of these kids just aren't prepared for college I don't know how many I watched drop out because they didn't have the discipline to do the work.
College has gotten so expensive today the cost for a credit hour has risen by over 100.00 from when I graduated.
I'm glad there isn't a draft in place right now, there are so many kids here who would get caught up in it.

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slackmaster

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Mon May-08-06 03:56 PM
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7. College is a lot more expensive and competitive than it was in my day

When I enrolled at UC San Diego in 1975, the registration fee (California resident) was $158 per quarter.

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mdmc

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Mon May-08-06 03:31 PM
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5. i currently have an OP in GD that discusses hatred

It seems that you hate Bush's final solution to the "middle class question".

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catmandu57

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Mon May-08-06 03:56 PM
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6. Yeah you might say I have an issue with him

This is more of a working class community, the middle class is not that large.

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