Straight White Males Not Going to College

I'm sure we've all seen the latest on college entrants, that girls are in the majority and white males are not signing up, not much. From The Wall Street Journal:

At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline. 

And working-class white males are the cause of the decline.

In The American Spectator Scott McKay goes into details of what is wrong, including wokism and female teachers all the way through that tend to regard boys as "bad girls who need to be managed." And there is power.

Drunk on the power and money their predecessors left them, and unfettered by any accountability that politicians (at state schools) and donors should have imposed on them, they decided a couple of decades ago that they were to be the molders of a brand new kind of American. 

 But do you know? I think that there is less here than meets the eye.

I don't think that anyone is really thinking about what they are doing. They are just picking up the Zeitgeist and going with it.

If you read a book by any liberal, what jumps off the page is the assumption that the way of liberals, as of right now in 2021, is the eternal way of the Universe. It is not that other ways are marginalized; it is just that nothing exists except the liberal way.

Now occasionally someone has a strategic idea in education, like Horace Mann and the common school. He had been to Germany and liked the system there, and also, as an upper-class Transcendentalist, liked the idea of educated kids away from the middle-class Puritanism and Catholicism of their parents.

Then, at the turn of the 20th century, leading minds thought that children should be educated in high school to be good factory workers.

And then people thought that women should be educated just like men.

And then, after World War II and the GI Bill, people thought that everyone should go to college.

Then, after the Civil Rights era, people thought that minorities should go to college.

Now, with the Woke Era, we have everything being turned into a Woke Revival.

And, because almost all education is non-profit, government-funded, we have the problem of all government programs that they are loot and plunder for the supporters and you can never reform them.

I think that we should think of education more as if it is the US in Afghanistan. Where, it turns out, we have been teaching young girls how to be modern 21st century woke feminists. Hoo boy. In other words, the people in charge have No Idea.

Personally, I think that the sooner education crashes and burns the better. Then we can build an emergent system, driven by the needs and the culture and the beliefs of each of us, based on home-schooling and pod schools and micro schools, parental authority, child labor connected to a new apprenticeship system paid for by corporations, men teaching boys, and on and on.

But not run by the government: run instead by parents.

Because the way of the centrally organized top-down culture of ruling-class orthodoxy is the way of disaster -- don't you think Joey S, and Mao Z.D.?

As we will soon find out.