Election 2024

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Originally Posted by Noogies

The shift in thinking that needs to be negotiated is where we as a society come to the realization that in a lot of cases, post-secondary education is entirely unnecessary.

That is not true for health care related fields...some form of post-secondary education is needed. As an X-ray tech I can tell you critical patients are sometimes left alone with you in the x-ray room when a nurse should be present so a basic awareness of medical knowledge is necessary. I am not saying a 4 year degree but associate degrees and/or state licensing should be required.There is sort of a Catch-22 with health care jobs below the RN level...if you make it too easy they will hire anyone off the streets and try to pay them the least amount of money...the quality of the care will go down along with the quality of the employee. If you make licensing too hard with
degree requirements or fees the available workers will have a difficult time entering the field and staff shortages will result.

I personally feel that college fees are too high...however the anti-intellectual trend of the recent years dismissing the value of liberal arts degrees (another result of fees being way out of control) may lead to a less aware electorate subceptible to being bamboozled by demagogues. As we have just experienced.