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should attempt to start with a shop class / home economics being mandatory like Gym was when i was in highschool... Thankfully they were available to me - to m
by 5bolts 5y ago
should attempt to start with a shop class / home economics being mandatory like Gym was when i was in highschool... Thankfully they were available to me - to many of my friend's kids don't even have the option these days as the shops and kitchen labs are closed due to costs... but they sure fund the shit out of sports.
- robomartin 5y agoAmong other things, I had a year of technical drafting in high school. I also had a year of photography (including film development, printing, etc.). My first two jobs out of high school were: Customer service at a professional photo laboratory and then technical drafting at a film studio. I have zero debt from college. Nobody leaving high school is going to make money sipping wine while discussing the finer details of Roman history. Sorry to take such a harsh line on this. Culture and context is VERY important, of course. We just don't need 12+ years of it. The first 12+ years of school is our "young-adult factory". We get one shot (over 12+ years) to produce young adults with a solid future. We do not do a good job of this. We waste a good deal of that time with pursuits that will not deliver measurably significant improvement to the rest of their lives. That's a crime. In this context 2020 was a rounding error.