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Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:34 am to udtiger
This model is used in Finland (who has an amazing education system). Students that are going into trades and such are in a completely different set of classes that those that are going on to college. I wrote a paper over this when getting my masters.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:35 am to Rex Feral
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I've saved all this money in 529 plans and have nothing to spend it on.
You can roll it directly into a Roth acct for both of them
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:35 am to udtiger
I still remember my guidance counselor telling 16 year old me that those jobs won't always be there. Some people should not be educators.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:37 am to udtiger
quote:Parents should be raising their kids and directing their steps, not government-run schools. If the parents want to work with the schools and use them as a tool to help direct their kids, sure. But, government-run schools shouldn't be the one's directing their steps. That's a parents' job.
T/F - high schools should be telling students to consider trades
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:42 am to udtiger
My $.02 is that starting at the sophomore or junior level, there should be a class introduced that goes over the fundamentals about the costs of post high school education, the efforts to get into different career paths, the incomes each career path earns beginning, on average, and on the high end. Then demonstrate how your decisions after high school affect your life for as long as you've been alive at that point.
Colleges have sold students the dream of earning 6 figures out of the gate and that just isn't an option for 90 to 95% of the degree plans they offer.
Colleges have sold students the dream of earning 6 figures out of the gate and that just isn't an option for 90 to 95% of the degree plans they offer.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:49 am to udtiger
Their job is to teach kids shite.
Career discussions are for parents.
Career discussions are for parents.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:49 am to udtiger
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For the last 40 years, the mantra has been "everyone should go to college"
Clearly, the proliferation of useless degrees - or of degrees in fields that are destined for the ashbin because of AI - shows that isn't the case, and won't be in the future.
Should schools be telling students to consider trades?
Should "shop" class be brought back?
Home economics?
This is true now, but it was always true. There have always been people who had no business in college. And much of high school is wasted on college prep classes.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:50 am to dnm3305
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You can roll it directly into a Roth acct for both of them
I know. $35k after 15 years, but that's my money. I don't want to just give it to them.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:50 am to udtiger
High schools should focus less on preparing everyone for the same future, and focus more on preparing each person for the things they are individually more suited for.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 9:54 am to Rex Feral
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I know. $35k after 15 years, but that's my money. I don't want to just give it to them.
Touche’
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:00 am to udtiger
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Home economics?
When my son was in HS he found out that the Home Ec class was 90% girls. He signed up immediately.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:04 am to crotiger0307
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Public schools should absolutely require kids to take a financial math or even accounting course rather than trig or geometry or any other arbitrary math that they will never use unless they plan on taking an engineering route or something similar.
This year, Georgia started requiring high school graduates to take a financial literacy class to graduate.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:06 am to udtiger
Just shut up and let all the Indians and Chinese take all the high paying white collar tech jobs and go move to South Dakota to install HVAC systems
Pajeet will need his toilet fixed eventually you should be honored to fix it
Pajeet will need his toilet fixed eventually you should be honored to fix it
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:10 am to udtiger
They should. One of the things that is problematic is the high schools themselves. In LA the Tops Tech program is a joke. Maybe you get an actual welding course for a semester. Also the efficacy of the programs at the different trade schools like Northshore Tech and other places is.......wanting
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:11 am to udtiger
No. Plumbers and electricians will be subject to the whims of the poli-sci and middle eastern nutjobs.
The most retarded thing republicans or conservatives can do is encourage talented and capable to go into the trades.
People in the trades have no power at all in the United states.
I absolutely despise this deceitful boomer messaging. In fact, stop listening to any boomer, nearly every view or perspective they have about the world is 50 years out of date.
The most retarded thing republicans or conservatives can do is encourage talented and capable to go into the trades.
People in the trades have no power at all in the United states.
I absolutely despise this deceitful boomer messaging. In fact, stop listening to any boomer, nearly every view or perspective they have about the world is 50 years out of date.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:17 am to Gimme Vaughn
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This model is used in Finland (who has an amazing education system). Students that are going into trades and such are in a completely different set of classes that those that are going on to college. I wrote a paper over this when getting my masters.
With a really robust and sound welfare state then people will be more inclined towards jobs that are considered "lower status".
The only dumbasses in this thread suggesting trades for American youths are boomers who simply have no clue about anything anymore genuinely too far removed to understand where the trades are.
Do not listen to boomers.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:18 am to Errerrerrwere
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Never met an electrician who didn't have a fishing boat and camp.
They are killing it and rarely get in an attic, roof or deal with shite water.
You cannot be serious. You dont think electricians have to go into attics to run wire? Are you delusional? Know how I know you dont know what you're talking about?
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:27 am to tiggerthetooth
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The most retarded thing republicans or conservatives can do is encourage talented and capable to go into the trades.
That is not what I am saying. At all.
There are people that do not belong in college. Period.
There are also people obtaining worthless degrees or degrees in areas that are destined for obsolescence (and soon) because of AI.
That is what I am talking about.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:29 am to udtiger
True. Do high schools still teach Industrial Arts, Small Engine Repair, and Power Mechanics (auto shop) any more?
This post was edited on 12/18/25 at 10:30 am
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