What if my child doesn't want to go to college?

What if my child doesn't want to go to college?

Harvey Hoyo (President, California School Counselors Association) gives expert video advice on: When should I start preparing for my child's higher education? and more...

If your child doesn't want to go to college, there are other higher education opportunities for the child. I would really question why, though the child doesn't want to go to college. However a community college, for example, does have vocational programs. In California, there's a Regional Occupation Program called ROP, that is available in most high schools in California. Many other states have them: Texas, New Jersey and New York have them. They provide technical classes for students like auto mechanics, that sort of thing. What I find is that students that take those classes in auto mechanics (by the way we learn a lot of calculus in auto mechanics now because there is so much electronics) do transfer to community colleges and get their licenses in auto mechanics, engineering and so forth. It's such a motivational tool. We're finding as long as kids have access, most kids want to go to college. So if you have student that doesn't want to go, I would suggest you involve your school's counselor in that, becuase there could be some other factors. I'd be really concerned about that.