Posted on 06/13/2017 3:52:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“The Constitution is not dead. Or is it?
I’m sorry, is this not FreeRepublic.com, “Defending Our Constitution”? That’s what it says on my FR refrigerator magnet and my FR t-shirt with my name on.”
Let me guess, you’re a baby boomer that benefited from every socialist program under the sun growing up, only to decide that tax cuts and libertarianism is the way to go in the 80s after you already got yours.
I know this is tough to understand, but the federal government has had its hands in public schooling for a long time, going back to the Northwest Ordinance.
Tell me, will you, or are you, participating in the unconstitutional medicare and social security programs? Are you accepting illegal and unconstitutional transfer payments from the federal government?
As soon as he was elected I said he ought to make Mile Rowe his ombudsman for a Apprentice initiative in conjunction with US industry funding and coordination!
Not another Federal department, but a joint effort of government encouragement and business initiative.
Way to go, President Trump!
They ought to. High Schools used to have Shop, people learned how to do basic woodworking, sheet metal work, and auto repair.
Today parents seem to think you need a college degree to get anywhere and they are willing to hock everything and saddle their kids with huge student loans, but a degree in Woymans Studies, or Ancient Pottery doesn’t pay much if anything at all.
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How about Black Lives Matter studies?
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I was in an AP track in junior high and we all took shop. Wood shop, metal shop or print shop.
I had print ship - individual lead letters assembled in a ‘stick’, upside-down and backwards, IIRC!
I can’t tell you how many times I saw talented skilled trades bail out engineers on projects. Skilled tradespeople built this country. I feel fortunate having worked with virtually every skilled trade. Electronics techs are a little goofy, though. I’ve always found them difficult to understand.
.....”Trump says he wants every high school in America to offer apprenticeship programs”......
This is an excellent idea in every way. There are people who work outstandingly well working with their hands....in trades etc. They are motivated to learn if it’s applied to their field of interest who commonly have no interest or motivation to learn otherwise.
I have a family member who took her senior courses and also did schooling in her field of interest at the same time. When she graduated she was fully certified to get work and did. She had a jump start into the work force a good year if not more ahead of the standard.
Trump has often said he was far more comfortable around the trades people then he was meeting with CEO’s etc.
Mike Rowe Approved!!
The Latest: Trump wants apprenticeships in all high schools
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As an Educator, I say this is an excellent idea that is LONG overdue.
Absolutely terrific idea. Many need to forget about getting a four year communist indoctrination degree and going tens of thousand of dollars in debt. Businesses and corporations will welcome the chance to be able to evaluate an individual in an apprenticeship status before formerly hiring the individual. The individual will welcome the chance to get his or her foot in the door and assess whether they like the work and the employer.
I'm thinking you were joshing..a bit.
I should have been so lucky. I left my northern Michigan school for Detroit in my Junior and Senior years of high school. Had I stayed up north, I would have taken home economics that was taught by my aunt..........To this day, I can't cook and my aunt is unavailable for help since she died a number of years ago.
Do this, and the left will be dead.
A kid that can weld and work sheet metal will always have a job as long as he/she wants to work.
Bonus points if they learn how to survey.
I totally agree with the president too. Teaching a trade to those not ready for college or those that don’t want to go to college is a good thing.
There’s a myriad of trades that can be taught and apprenticeships assigned.
“I was in an AP track in junior high and we all took shop. Wood shop, metal shop or print shop. I had print shop - individual lead letters assembled in a ‘stick’, upside-down and backwards, IIRC!”
i took industrial arts and print shop in junior high. we also set type piece by piece.
Bring back shop class.
Who do you think got rid of all the shop/trades courses and shuffled everyone towards four years of women's studies? Supply and demand?
I can think of nothing better than having parallel opportunities in the trades taught in our schools as they once were.
STEM is poverty.
One must renounce their citizenship.
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