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Education

noamnety

(20,234 posts)

5. Everything you said

Reply to Nay (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:51 AM

Feb 2016

plus I would add geographic mobility. Poorer students from inner cities, for example, might live at home and go to college instead of going away and paying for a dorm - but then their contacts and job opportunities are still within the inner city, unless they can pay to travel for job interviews, which is a crazy gamble when you are broke.

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A college degree is worth less to poor kids [View all] eridani Feb 2016 OP

I think a distinction needs to be made between worth less and worthless. CBGLuthier Feb 2016 #1

I agree. No reason not to try anyway eridani Feb 2016 #2

Suppose we are doing a simulation and the liklihood of said education leading to work, ever Baobab Mar 2016 #10

I don't see enough analysis to draw that conclusion FBaggins Feb 2016 #3

It doesn't say what possibilities the researchers are investigating, but Nay Feb 2016 #4

Everything you said noamnety Feb 2016 #5

You are exactly right. Every great job I had was one that I was referred to. DawgHouse Mar 2016 #11

Smells like the usual rationalization for depriving more and more Americans of an education. Baobab Mar 2016 #6

No--it means that education by itself isn't enough n/t eridani Mar 2016 #7

Do you mean that the stress of poverty impacts poor people's health? Baobab Mar 2016 #8

I totally agree, if one does not have a support network, its nearly impossible. Baobab Mar 2016 #9