Broke Pros

How many times do we have to hear young professionals talk about their debt? Everyone thinks that medical and technical and education folk are making big money. Maybe that's how it appears, but when you owe as much as half a house worth of dollars due to your education, you are more burdened than other workers in simple jobs that don't require long term education at high cost. It's part of the societal ego mask we don't want to think about.  When are we going to stop such nonsense as some courses in high school that  are meant to inspire some students to get into some professions but offer none to others just as important to them. The key word here, is "some". Courses such as Trig (sorry mathematicians) have absolutely no value for many and could be replaced by, for example, pre- medical subjects for future nurses and doctors and practitioners. The whole high school system from Grade Eleven on, could be changed so that when our students graduate all of  them have some of what society requires and that they want to contribute to.  Instead, we force them to borrow hugely to do what we need from them in the future. Former students who have through their huge amounts of money borrowed in their education and training and have achieved their goals, could return to high school to help educated those coming up. Not book-learning published professors but by those active in the  trades and professions who can spare some time to return to high school to advise and mentor.  Perhaps it seems impossible but all hard achieved possibilities begin with the impossible. In my high school days, I often asked myself why am I strugging in math class when I prefer to know more in the field I intend to take on. You can't please everyone but there were far too many kids in my Trig class who were stressed by a discipline that had absolutely no use in their future plans. Others, for example, loved the class because they were on to an engineering or science future. You can't please everyone, but what can be done is to find out from the students themselves where they are likely to head and allow them those kinds of courses.  Is that impossible or is it merely a hard possible?