It’s time. You’ve been procrastinating for what seems like forever, but now it’s time to have “the talk” with your child. You tell them that you love them, that you care about them, that you respect them. And now it’s time to prove it. No, I’m not talking about the sex talk. I’m talking about the college talk.

For the sake of their own welfare, you have to tell them the truth. That for the most part, college has become a scam and that only under very specific circumstances would you be willing to help them pay for it. You’ll tell them that the narrative regarding the value of a college education that has stood for hundreds of years is no longer applicable. It is, quite simply, no longer true that you must go to college to have a successful career. It is no longer the case that the vast majority of employers demand that you have a four-year degree in order to be hired. The days are gone where you must have a college education in order to be accepted in society as an “elite” thinker/intellectual. The reason that this narrative is vanishing before our very eyes is clear. The efficacy of a college education has been drastically reduced in recent years.

You will explain to them that we are currently in the midst of a shifting social paradigm. Although there’s a lag time between the reality of this phenomenon and its public acknowledgement, you are smart enough to see that it is here. Spending a large portion your retirement nest egg to have your child indoctrinated into a rabid leftwing ideological cult simply isn’t a good “investment” for either of you. The previously referenced narrative includes the suggestion that it is your duty as a parent to send your child to college, and the associated guilt in not doing........

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