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School is for suckers anymore. Who in their right mind would put themselves through what amounts to institutional training for a life of future labor, middle cl
by iamleppert 10y ago
School is for suckers anymore. Who in their right mind would put themselves through what amounts to institutional training for a life of future labor, middle class if you're lucky, working for a corporation as an at-will employee?
You've paid thousands and given up four years of your youth, and for what? To go to work (if you're lucky for many) for a big corporation making a select few wealthier? Meanwhile your salary is barely enough to make only but marginal dents in the debt you now owe.
You struggle to find meaning in your life, as you battle politics, desperately try to stay relevant in an environment of anxiety and fear; your peers are just as worried as you.
There needs to be an awakening where we stop telling our kids the "one way" to happiness and the dream is through an expensive undergraduate education. Sure, if you want to go to school to learn something, go...but something tells me, that to the architects of this system, education is the least of the priorities.
- themartorana 10y agoWell, except for GPs, oncologists, gastroenterologists... hell, all doctors... nurses, lawyers, chemical engineers, civil engineers, structural engineers... hell, all engineers... architects, accountants, actuaries, physicists, biologists, epidemiologists... hell, all scientists...
- sb8244 10y agoWhat is your alternative?
- aianus 10y agoDon't have children unless you're rich and/or connected.
- darpa_escapee 10y agoGo work for/found a start up, of course! > To go to work (if you're lucky for man) to make a select few wealthier? Meanwhile your salary is barely enough to make only but marginal dents in the debt you now owe. >You struggle to find meaning in your life, as you battle politics, desperately try to stay relevant in an environment of anxiety and fear; your peers are just as worried as you. Oh wait. But I guess you don't have to worry as a founder, your safety net will catch you if you fail unlike the rest of us :)
- trhway 10y agoman, K-12 is no more. K-16 is the bare minimum to function in the current civilization. Obviously this new reality should be reflected in school organization, i.e. whole K-16 should be covered by the public.
- ams6110 10y agoIronically 1-8 used to be the minumum and those 8th graders were probably better prepared for life than today's 12th graders are.
- taneq 10y agoBy which you mean, life was navigable by an 8th grader back then? I don't think the quality of year 8 students has dropped that significantly.
- douche 10y agoHow much value is added during 9-12th grade? A k-8 program with a little bit of life skills and shop would be better than what I did in 12 years. Especially if you consider that people were working sub-minimum wage jobs for a few years after getting through 8th grade in those days, which were effectively apprenticeships.
- darpa_escapee 10y agoI'd find it hard to navigate life competently without learning geometry, algebra and trigonometry. Calculus as well. Painting a room, taking out a loan and (in ways) driving a car all incorporate those skills. You can do each task without any knowledge of those math subjects, but you can reason about them much better with a solid understanding of the fundamentals.
- douche 10y agoI wouldn't bet on that. I've known too many carpenters and general contractors who flunked out well before calculus. Now, they may figure stuff out the hard way, working off approximations and rules of thumb, but they figure it out, and do the hard work, too.