The main thing missing from the article is intentional conflation of inherently opposing situations. True, a union apprentice electrician's classwork is not al

The main thing missing from the article is intentional conflation of inherently opposing situations. True, a union apprentice electrician's classwork is not all that wide. However, I may be one of the only people here on HN who took my first 64 credits and an associates degree at a local tech school (for about $50/credit, admittedly quite a few years ago) and I received credit for 48 of them at the institution where I later got my BSCS. I assure you I had to sit thru the same intro to sociology, psych, public speaking, physics, and calculus classes as any other freshman. The main difference was trade school students tend to be older and more serious and pay more attention in class. The quality of lab equipment in degree granting fields (EE) was similar in trade school and uni. The quality of equipment in non-degree labs (physics) was vastly inferior, yet good enough. Neither of my experiences have anything to do with "semester long coding bootcamps" and similar training mentioned in the article. True, that university education is all pretty much the same; however, "everything that is not going to college" has quite a bit of diversity. Speaking of diversity, there is zero permitted diversity of thought or political opinion in university today; they are single political party indoctrination centers. Surely almost any other post-high school experience would better prepare students for the diverse real world.