United States Dismal Outlook For High Paying Jobs

Its estimated that 62% of the new jobs over the next ten years will require a college degree with most of those degreed jobs being in the fields of advanced business, science and medicine, engineering and high tech. So, the real question is: Are American youths ready to meet that impending challenge?

To answer that question, we need only examine the numbers.

According to a study reported by Fox News, only 70 out of every 100 high school students, nationally, graduate on time. Of those 70 graduating students, only 49 (or 70%) will go on to try and and earn either an associate degree or bachelor's degree. Sadly, 75% of those who do go on to college are ill prepared and doomed to either drop out or flunk out. This only leaves 13 of the original 100 high school students who even have a chance to make it through to a timely graduation.

So, in answer to the question, only about 13% of America's high school students actually have a real chance of graduating from college. Even if the math is 100% wrong, that's still quite a shortfall when you consider that 60% of all new jobs will require that sheep's skin in order to enter tomorrow's high-paying market. Unless America's youth can step up to the plate, the high-paying jobs are going to continue to move off shore or go to qualified immigrants or college degreed foreigners who have managed to get here on work visas. This is what 50 years of progressive/liberal thinking on education has gotten us.

We don't need more teachers with smaller class sizes. And, obviously, expensive pre-school, and before and after-school programs aren't working, either. We need to push education from both the ground up and from the top down. Somehow, we need to stop the trend of our children being raised by a single parent. Currently, more than 30 million children are being raised in a single parent household. A parent who often hasn't got the time to be involved in their children's education. For those children with two-parents, we need them to emphasize the importance of learning and try and get them more directly involved. We also need a President who preaches the importance of corporations and Wall Street in providing high paying jobs and stop demonizing those businesses. Lastly, we do need better educators and better curricula. We need to pattern our education system after those Charter schools that have had proven results. I don't need to explain this. I would definitely recommend you watching the DVD: "Waiting for Superman".