Reasons You Should Not Be Sending Your Kids Straight to College

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🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:26.6	Dr.ora.com. I want to talk about reasons you should not be sending your kids straight to college
0:32.3	when they graduate high school. Unless they're super studious have a lot of self-control,
0:38.2	haven't given you any trouble with drugs or alcohol,
0:40.4	and really are totally clued in to what they're
0:44.0	going to want to do for a living,
0:46.0	I'm against sending them, I'm against sending them
0:51.4	to college right away.
0:53.9	Unless you have millions of dollars to throw away,
0:57.7	it's an awful lot of debt for somebody who's not focused.
1:05.4	So there are lots of articles about this.
1:11.9	One of the things that I think is important,
1:14.7	and I found an article by Lara Morrison,
1:19.6	gives a list.
1:21.9	According to the, there's actually an association,
1:24.3	a nonprofit organization that develops accreditation standards
1:27.4	for gap year programs.
1:30.3	No, I think there are countries around the world. In fact, it's got to be more than half.
1:37.6	Then when they graduate high school, they have to spend one or two years in the military.
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