Do any of you have a child who wa not smart enough for college?

Unless your child has severe documented learning disabilities, my bet is that there is a college that they can attend and graduate. If the learning disabilities are well documented, they can probably get into a pretty good school that has many special services for people with these difficulties. Good luck.

For a kid who can't get into a real university, there is always Cornell.

PA State school accept a lot of less capable students. There are lots of accomodations available (extra time, note takers, alternative tests,etc.).

Your parents did.

jfhfjhfjh wrote:

Do any of you have a child who wa not smart enough for college?

Impossible!

Salary: $400,00

Wife: 10

Children's IQ: 145

jfhfjhfjh wrote:

If so, how do you cope?

So there are plenty of trade jobs out there that make money.... not everyone needs to go to college to make a good living.

jfhfjhfjh wrote:

If so, how do you cope?

Shouldn't this be addressed to the Brojos parents since they have a lot of experience in this matter?

random6 wrote:

PA State school accept a lot of less capable students. There are lots of accomodations available (extra time, note takers, alternative tests,etc.).

to be fair, most of them do fail out in the first year.

Imossible Man wrote:

jfhfjhfjh wrote:

Do any of you have a child who wa not smart enough for college?

Impossible!

Salary: $400,00

Wife: 10

Children's IQ: 145

It must suck supporting 10 wives on $40k (pro-tip: when counting where to place the comma in a dollar amount, start from the right). Also with more than one kid accounting for that IQ I hope it is only 2 so its a pair of 77.5's or a 100 and a 45.

How is the weather in Utah?

y'all, nearly half of people who start college don't finish in six years

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/11/19/u_s_college_dropouts_rates_explained_in_4_charts.html

Bryan Caplan puts it like this

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/02/why_the_college.html

"College is a great investment for great students, a mediocre investment for mediocre students, and a bad investment for bad students."

OP, your kid might be plenty smart or gifted or whatever but if they're in the bottom quarter of the academic distribution, college is probably a bad idea. No shame in that.

Perhaps they can bartend on an idyllic beach somewhere.

People like you should not be parents.

The question should read: "Do you have a child who ain't smart enuf fer college?"

My sustenance consists of table scraps and pet food that my mom throws into the basement

My 6-year-old son has learning disabilities. I hope, but honestly don't know whether college will be the best option for him in 12 years. My goals are for him to be a happy, independent adult.

One copes with stress in life by focusing on the elements of situations that can be controlled. Hard work, persistence and resilience go a long way. Identifying strengths and working around weaknesses is obviously key.

There are a lot of smart, unhappy people. There are a lot of lazy people with a superiority complex. There are a lot of neurotic people who have crappy coping skills. Even at 6 the indications are that my son is hardworking, even-keeled, empathetic, and social. I feel good about his chances of being happy and independent.

This thread disturbs me. Our country doesn't even know what questions to be asking.

Here's my belief. While education is very important.college for the most part seems to be just a separator of who is the smartest so why do we want everyone to go to college? It seems like a waste of money.

In 20 years when robots are doing fast food jobs, we'll still have to pay plumbers as people have pointed out.

Here is the question I've always wondered the answer to. How would 'the experts' answer the following. IMagine a world where everyone was brilliant and everyone went to Stanford. 100% of the population is the same in IQ and education.

Now what? How do the jobs get allocated? Who is the nuclear scientist, housekeeper, etc?

rojo wrote:

This thread disturbs me. Our country doesn't even know what questions to be asking.

Here's my belief. While education is very important.college for the most part seems to be just a separator of who is the smartest so why do we want everyone to go to college? It seems like a waste of money.

In 20 years when robots are doing fast food jobs, we'll still have to pay plumbers as people have pointed out.

Here is the question I've always wondered the answer to. How would 'the experts' answer the following. IMagine a world where everyone was brilliant and everyone went to Stanford. 100% of the population is the same in IQ and education.

Now what? How do the jobs get allocated? Who is the nuclear scientist, housekeeper, etc?

We want everyone to go to college because we want an well-educated populace. Regardless of whether or not it leads to a better economy having an educated populace is a good thing.

In 20 years I think we might have robo-plumbers in addition to our robo-burger flippers.

I'm not am expert, nor do I claim expert knowledge of education. I think that if everyone was brilliant and went to Stanford jobs would be allocated based on interest (going to Stanford doesn't mean you will be interested in biophysics and it doesn't mean you wont be interested in housekeeping) and who was the most liked by the people doing the hiring.

jfhfjhfjh wrote:

If so, how do you cope?

You mean how do you lead your child to feel confidant and capable even though they are not able to go to college?

I sorry your question was more focused on yourself, you are not a parent are you?

the FAKE Hingle McCringleberry wrote:

My sustenance consists of table scraps and pet food that my mom throws into the basement

Yell: "Ma, the meat loaf, where's my meatloaf."

I would disagree here. When I was younger I used to do a lot of work with youth. Primarily high school age kids. There were some of them who just couldn't cut it in college. One of these kids had a knack for mechanical things. He would fix cars on his own ect. He really struggled with reading, reading comprehension, math ect. There was no way he could graduate from college. I encouraged him to go to a trade school for auto mechanics. The area I live in is an middle to upper middle class area though. Everyone goes to college and everyone is pressured to go. He ended up getting pressured to go into college as well meaning but ultimately wrong adults convinced him that college was the only way.

He failed out of college his sophomore year. Loaded with debt. No skills. It took him 10 years to dig out of that.

So no college isn't for everyone. College isn't achievable for everyone. If you have a child who isn't college material find out what they are good at. Look into a trade school or look into some sort of internship. You do need a trade or you are screwed. The straight out of high school to a middle income job is extremely rare.