Stay in school.
It’s not entirely related, but Squashed made me think of this when he said:
This isn’t simply a matter of parents thinking this is an inappropriate use of school resources or a waste of time. This is parents who think that having Obama say something to their children about staying in school and being the best they can be is so harmful that it would be better to skip school entirely.
School is pretty important. You hear a lot about how a college graduate earns X dollars more in their life than a high school graduate. This is similarly preachy. The more school you get, the less likely you’ll be unemployed. The high school dropout line is always above the other lines. Perhaps even more important is that right now the spread between the unemployment rates for high school dropouts and college grads (violet line) is at an all time (well, the data only goes back to 1992) high.
You’ll note that they don’t have anything on there about grad school. Hmmm….
(source: BLS)
UPDATE: I didn’t intentionally try to offend. I wrote BS. It should be Bachelor’s degree. Oops.
