The Anti College Conversation is Getting Weird

I made a post saying that my daughter does not have an option when it comes to college. She's going. The only option she'll have is which college she's going to. And I received so much pushback. Some of you will be extremely shocked when your child moves out at 18 and never speaks to you again. Not everyone is built for schooling, that's a big thing people don't talk about. Some people genuinely aren't built for it. You're setting them up for failure. Low-key college degrees don't mean anything like how they used to. And it depends on what you major in because most of the degrees are useless if you're not going to be a doctor or a lawyer or something along those fields. My dad forced college on me so I got pregnant instead. I did not want to go, but I literally would've had no choice. Bro if my livelihood depended on random numbers, I'm done. And at the end of the day, you won't control her after 18. No matter how hard you try or God forbid you do, and she hates the life you "made" for her. You don't have a choice attitude is why I ended up flunking out and am now in debt for the 2 years I went with no degree to show for it. I said for years I didn't want to go. That I was burnt out and over school. But nooo, I was "too smart" not to go, just to end up in online school due to COVID and eventually getting kicked because my GPA was too low. It's fucked up that parents have the power to force you to go, but they're not the ones who's stuck with the work or the debt afterwards. Nigerian's motivate their kids to go to college. But when I come on this app and say like, hey y'all, I'm paying for all the expenses. I've been saving in my daughter's 529. She has a brokerage account, she has investment accounts. She's going to college. There's people in the comments calling me controlling, saying that she'll hate me, that it's a waste of time and money, and that having a college degree does not guarantee that you'll make livable wages. Even though I pull up the numbers, a high school diploma right now makes about $50,000 a year on average, compared to a bachelor's degree holder who makes $81,000 per year. And people are pushing back on that. I mean, y'all can do what y'all want with y'all kids, but in my household, we do prioritize. Now, I sent in another video, I can't physically force my daughter, but I just talked to her this morning and I was like, Zuri, when you get older, you're going to college. She was like, yeah, I'm going right after high school. See? It starts at a young age. Sometimes I sit back and think like, my grandparents were sharecroppers in Mississippi. My parents did not graduate from college. Neither did my grandparents. They only graduated from high school. My sisters and I are first-gen graduates. We all have our bachelor's, and one of my sisters actually has her doctorate, her PhD. Why would we stop? Why would we stop? Why would we stop?