Do you think vocational education offers good value for your money because it provides marketable skills?

It is a viable alternative to a 4 year degree. The best value for the money is through community colleges and other state funded schools. Be careful of chain schools that are for profit business.

Check the Education Trust for information. Some students have amassed large amounts of student load debt with little to show for their work. Check out the schools graduation rate.

Check with local business's to see where the jobs are. Org/dc/press-room/press-release/subprime-opportunity-high-dividends-low-baccalaureates-at-for-profit-col.

Here is an interesting news article: They mention a couple of schools... University of Phoenix, Kaplan University and Capella University. Com/event/article/id/190131/group/Investigations.

It totally depends on the interests and mindset of the student.

It would have been a poor choice for my kids; it might be an excellent choice for many kids as long as there are actually jobs available after they learn their skills.

It's the only valuable education. The rest one can get by checking out books from the library.

It's the only valuable education. The rest one can get by checking out books from the library. While there might be people who can educate themselves from library books, you do not get a degree that way.

Studies show that piece of paper ups your incomes dramaticlally. Therefore, vocational education is not the only valuable education. There are a lot of people for whom 4 year colleges are not financially possible, or they are just not wired to go to a 4 year school.

Vocational educations work out great for them - and honestly - people with vocational training are the people who keep this country moving.

Back in the old days, our high school (4 yrs) taught, Shop, auto repair, cabinets, sewing, Cooking, Stenography, typing, homemaking, beauty school was available but you had to pay 15.00 a yr extra. Shop included plumbing & electrical. Probably only about 10% of the boys went to college, (most were drafted on the spot) and very few girls, no one could afford it except the very wealthy.

But we had almost NO DROP OUTS...we finished school, we had friends, we had fun, nobody went to jail. Our parents were friends with everyone in the neighborhood and with our teachers.... Then of course we got ..I think we would have less drop outs if we still taught some of it is high school... some of our students are just not college material and we offer them nothing else. How sad.

The good ole days GoldenLion 8 months ago .

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