This article strikes out at the end. The answer for the folks who have given up looking for a job isn't easier access to college as suggested. When someone dro

This article strikes out at the end. The answer for the folks who have given up looking for a job isn't easier access to college as suggested. When someone drops out of high school it's not because they had too few choices to go to college, it's because they didn't see any value in the education they were already getting. We need more vocational education and it needs to start earlier in life. They should also teach a class in high school called "life" in which kids have to construct a virtual life for themselves, finds a place to live on Craigslist, price furniture, calculate food expenses, gas, electric, internet, mobile, insurance, etc, etc, so they have a good concept of what they're up against. Then talk about serious alternatives to pay for that life, a vocation, the military, college professional. My HVAC guy didn't need college; it would be a huge waste of money and it would have postponed his career by 4 years. People like him can make six figures if they're good and easily support a family of 4.