Looking at schools with my children is fun, and almost as illuminating for me as it is puzzling for them. They are all themselves, and so far none has done what I thought they'd want to do.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
I thought No. 1 Daughter would go into oceanography. Instead she studied sociology and international relations, and is working as a grant-writer for a non-profit in the housing space.
I thought No. 1 Son would like USCGA for civil engineering, but he'd rather pay $x per year than cut his hair.
No. 2 Son (17) wants to work with computers, but not software. He does not want an iPhone because they are all too big for his hands. He likes phonograph records, film photography, manual typewriters, and solving math problems longhand. He's upset that school never taught him to write or type.
It's almost excruciatingly bitter how the current generation is not at all interested in what a previous generation's marketing people thought the current generation would love.
In 1986, while I was in high school, Conventional Wisdom knew we would all use WordPerfect and TRS-80s when we graduated, and there were already discussions about eliminating handwriting from the curriculum in favor of "keyboarding." Now they teach neither.
Comments
I thought No. 1 Son would like USCGA for civil engineering, but he'd rather pay $x per year than cut his hair.
Guess what skills literate humans need?