Students opting for the cream (Chronicle of Higher Ed article)

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@fiftyfifty1

Oh we are in agreement on this. My point is only that the education rejectors will say not only that college is stupid for pilots, they will say that college is stupid in general. They don’t just look down on local directional, they also trash State Flagship and Harvard.

And the words “indoctrination centers” usually accompany any conversation with this particular demographic.

@fiftyfifty1

In our state there is a huge divide in opinion and behavior between rural typically Red-voting people and urban/suburban typically Blue-voting people. The rural people seldom chose to send their kids to anywhere other than local public directionals, and now they aren’t sending them at all. But among the urban/suburban group, especially the middle class and wealthy, demand for education seems as high as ever. This is the group that often sent their kids to flagships and higher ranked privates.

It is exactly this way in the PNW. In fact, many outwardly say they don’t want their kid going to UW because “Seattle is so screwed up.” Although I’ve found that if their kid actually gets in they typically choose it over publics in other parts of the state, but that’s another discussion.