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- The good thing is that most student loans are not required to be paid back, until you actually start to work...
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- I believe in apprenticeships. Born in UK my husbnd began his apprenticeship straight from school at around age 16...He worked in the Steelworks and went one day and one evening per week to college. He learned his skills on the job....Many yeas later, after working around the world, we ended up in Canada. The new steelworks were being commissioned on Lake Erie and they needed skilled workers...no apprenticeships here....so our guys ended up with apprentices who were in their 20's....University graduates...with student loans....That just doesn't seem right to me. I hope they go back to the 'old apprenticeships' or the sake of the young me and women leaving High Schools in the future....It makes much more sense.
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- I believe in apprenticeships. Born in UK my husbnd began his apprenticeship straight from school at around age 16...He worked in the Steelworks and went one day and one evening per week to college. He learned his skills on the job....Many yeas later, after working around the world, we ended up in Canada. The new steelworks were being commissioned on Lake Erie and they needed skilled workers...no apprenticeships here....so our guys ended up with apprentices who were in their 20's....University graduates...with student loans....That just doesn't seem right to me. I hope they go back to the 'old apprenticeships' or the sake of the young me and women leaving High Schools in the future....It makes much more sense.
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- i am a 57 year old retired electrician.i went threw the I.B.E.W. apprentice training program in the early 80's and this was the best thing that i ever did.it's a great program. people are not going to do without power and water . job security
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- Bravo! This is how unions are built.
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- I was on an apprentice program 40+ years ago. It was funded by the company, the union and Lyndon Johnson's great society program. I can truthfully say that it was that program that enabled me to live the American Dream
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- Another thing. Many big businesses have cut out their apprentice programs over the last 20 years and the effect was immediate and obviously negative, just like so many other things wrong with our businesses.
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- Skilled laborers can make all kinds of money. Specalties like Welding, plumbing. My wife taught special ed kids who learned trades and after school she says they are doing better than she ever did. And I don't mean you have to be 'disabled' mentally to take up a trade. It takes all kinds of workers to make a country/society run and if everyone was a medical doctor there wouldn't be enough work to go around.
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- Most "classroom" time for apprenticeships takes place at a community college. Okay, if the union is paying your tuition, you don't end up with student loan debt.
But when Obama said every person in this country should be allowed to get "higher education", he wasn't just specifically talking about getting a 4-year university degree. He was including all other forms of education past 12th grade. - Reply to this comment
