Can't Find a Job After High School

I went to trade school in order to learn a skill, and get a job that would help me take care of my family financially. What I didn’t know was the diploma I was getting wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on. I searched high and low for employment but employer after employer asked what accredited college credits I had in order to get the job. Essentially my heart was broken I felt like I had been lied too most of all I was angry time had been wasted because I still needed to get a college education.  When you want a better life for yourself but you don’t want to spend years in school for the education you fall for the Admissions tale hook line and sinker. That is how low-income students without high school diploma are being baited into borrowing thousands of dollars for school and are unable to get a decent job in order to pay back their loans. The reinstitution of the ATB test  is what I consider another form of deceit used to admit students without a high school diploma knowing many will not make the cut and/or will only get a job paying no more than their currently making.

 In my opinion, the ATB tests aren’t benefiting anyone other than the for-profit institutions that administer them.  They have low-income students take the ATB test in order to be admitted to their school in hopes of a better life. And, when the student is finally employed the likelihood the loans are repaid is slim to none because the job they have doesn’t pay enough to take care of the

family and pay off the student loans.  What admissions reps fail to say to potential student is that many employers are likely to select a candidate with a high school diploma as oppose to one who does not have a high school diploma.  Why throw a person with already so little means into thousands of dollars of debt?  To me, for-profit schools are exactly what they say they are for-profit at the cost of who and whatever.

So if for-profit schools continue to admit student without a high school diploma the one thing employers look for at the start of the hiring process what chance do person have to really get ahead?  I understand certain circumstances may arise in the lives of people; but what I don’t understand is why the Department of Education would reinstitute the approval of the ATB test for those who have not received a high school diploma or GED. I’m not saying that people should not be given a chance in life but what I am saying is what are the chances the student without the  high school diploma  gets the job over the student with the high school diploma? 

Written by Celina Canada-Johnson

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