Posted on 03/17/2020 11:17:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Software engineering is like baseball, lots of people play and lots of them ain’t very good. The difference is, when a baseball player drops the ball lots of people know it instantly. In software engineering, even the managers may not know it for a long time or may never know it at all.
Amazon is Hiring 100,000, they can all be Delivery Drivers.
Would make more sense to me to groom them as potential chess champions.
ML/NJ
Yes.
... But coding is kind’a hard. I was a computer tech in another life so I know a’lil but as a math tard, I can’t get past hexadecimal ‘n’ binary digits. Can’t we just have Bloomey teach us all to farm? He can teach anyone to do it!
First they need to be virus testers!
Then general hospital aides...
How would you handle chemistry and physics labs, orchestra, and so on? Some subjects require expensive equipment or supplies while other require people to assemble into groups.
There are trends to teach embedded electronics/computing and mechatronics in high school. Those classes are based on equipment and lab work. How many parents would want to shell out for a $900-$2400 oscilloscope or other such equipment? How about the family machine shop?
How do you propose to do these things?
They would need to work eight ours a day, and 50 weeks a year.
There is no way the most important people in the country (if you ask them) would submit themselves to that.
Plus coding requires a logical thinking process. Again, a non starter.
Teachers were instrumental in the “everyone is a unique flower” mindset. Those students and former students are about to find out how “common” they really are.
Will parents step up?
Seriously?
I live in a town of doctors and lawyers. There are some smart people in their fields. But when it comes to their kids...they are treated like pets.
In the local communities, the parents are morons. Legitimate, illiterate, morons.
My answer to that is to do away with generalised education. Perhaps a smarter model is to determine aptitude strengths and weaknesses at earlier ages, and have high school actually be vocational stage education. Quit wasting so many resources and time trying to force certain fields of study on students who neither care for the subject, nor have the capability to learn them.
You are WAY off track. Good luck.
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