bemusedlybespectacled:

“we should stop trying to get kids to go to college and encourage them to go to trade school instead” is one of those things that sounds perfectly reasonable and isn’t inherently wrong or bad but in practice seems like a good way of funneling poor and/or minority students into being a dedicated underclass of service workers 

especially when it’s presented as an alternative to making higher education more financially accessible

like ideally everyone would be allowed to pursue whatever careers they want without stigma or financial barriers but when I get people like Trump pushing vocational schools at the expense of community colleges I am, shall we say,,, suspicious