Tornado Alley (PROG)

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38% of the entire U.S. population has a college degree; the number is still ascending notwithstanding real and imagined misgivings over costs and curricula.

Waste of class time "learning" about "social justice activism".

Really? Reads to me like an elective, so anyone who doesn't want to be there.......won't be there.

Find me any college grad that didn't find even some classes in their major not particularly interesting.

Most college students no less than HS students often learn 'accidently' by just hunkering down to 'get the grade', in some courses, and at the very least they learn SOME course content as well as the value of persistence and determination from the effort.

How many of the laughably credulous stop the steal morons who insurrected on 1/6 do you suppose 'hunkered down' at any educational level? 'Stop the steal' and critical thinking skills just don't go together.

'Too educated' is not the source of most of this country's problems

Educational attainment in the U.S. 1960-2021

Published by Erin Duffin, Jun 10, 2022

In 2020, about 37.9 percent of the U.S. population who were aged 25 and above had graduated from college or another higher education institution. This is a significant increase from 1960, when only 7.7 percent of the U.S. population had graduated from college.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/

AMERICA IS DIVIDED BY EDUCATION
The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it.

By Adam Harris
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/education-gap-explains-american-politics/575113/

According to exit polls, 61 percent of non-college-educated white voters cast their ballots for Republicans while just 45 percent of college-educated white voters did so. Meanwhile 53 percent of college-educated white voters cast their votes for Democrats compared with 37 percent of those without a degree.

The growing diploma divide is less a result of non-college-educated white voters becoming Republicans, and more of college-educated white voters finding that they can’t fully support the party anymore. “What's happened since 2016 is that the low-educated whites have kind of plateaued in their support for the Republicans,” Tesler says. “But you've seen this trend increase [of] high-educated whites [moving] towards the Democrats.”