They're fed up.
that's continued past the return of in-person learning — but the graduates themselves make some good points.
Although he had dreams of attending Penn State, Grayson Hart, a recent high school graduate in Jackson, Tennessee, is now directing a youth theater program — and by his own accounting, he seems to be doing pretty well. "There were a lot of us with the pandemic, we kind of had a do-it-yourself kind of attitude of like, 'Oh — I can figure this out,'" Hart told the. "Why do I want to put in all the money to get a piece of paper that really isn’t going to help with what I’m doing right now?"keeps getting worse as a national labor shortage widens; foregoing college to begin making money right after high school makes more sense than ever.
"Students can’t seem to resist sign-on bonuses and wages that far exceed any that they’ve seen before," Vicki Burch, the head of the county chamber of commerce in Jackson, told theTo be clear, disinterest or skepticism about the value of a college degree is not at all a byproduct of the pandemic. For
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