Then again, the ones who think cutting this class and hanging out with their angst strew buddies land them in OWS, wondering why their French Lit degree didn't get them a job.
When you have a society tht has a large percentage of parasites openly being advertised to by your own Federal Government to ‘ be sure to sign up for Food Stamps, WIC, Earned Income Credit, Section 8 Housing, Food Bank supplies, Grants of every stripe & size for “education”’, the result is a society where those who live 3-4-5-6 generations on such handouts suck the incentive to really work out of those who truly have a work ethic.
When I was a kid, charity came from the churches & it was a rather quiet affair.
Today, a expotentially growing part of each community is standing there & DEMANDING handouts from the legal efforts of others.
When a person who is the ‘baby Daddy’ of a number of offspring barely manages to hold a part time job due to his personal choices of companions, chemical dependency & work attendance gets more money back in EARNED INCOME CREDIT than he ‘earned’ in a tax year, it certainly doesn’t incentivise those who are walking a straighter line in their lives.
When sloth is rewarded, you get more sloth.
When crime is NOT punished, you get more crime.
When crime becomes beneficial, you get even more crime.
“Myers-Briggs” Test
How about we teach them things they should know instead of trying to analyze them?
Attempting to tell them what career to get into is statist and wrong.
These tests always told me I should be an architect, which would have likely been a bad career choice, since my ability to be creative on such things is about the same as my ability to dance.
I've always wondered if for some kids, answers like "lazy welfare bum" or "Assistant Manager for Burger Franchise" ever comes up.
These tests always told me I should be an architect, which would have likely been a bad career choice, since my ability to be creative on such things is about the same as my ability to dance.
I've always wondered if for some kids, answers like "lazy welfare bum" or "Assistant Manager for Burger Franchise" ever comes up.
I gave those thests years go and wrote them off as hogwash. They were rarely reliable. I take them myself about once a month and not once did they come up with the same career. Both your groups of students are wasting their time, however one group is having more fun.
IIRC, Meyers-Briggs is more of a personality test, as opposed to an aptitude test. Linking personality with a profession is part of the decision-making that goes into a career choice, but not everything.
I suppose this is better than nothing. I imagine that most kids have no idea "what they want to be when they grow up," and to make them decide in high school--by way of making them choose a college and a degree program--can be almost cruel.
I actually know a person who "studied" for this test. He took it several times on line to see how he needed to answer to fit a certain profile for a supervisory position.
It helped. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we now had a smug, self-aggrandizing, couldn't-do-the-real-job-at-hand-if-his-life-depended-on-it, obsequeous jack-wagon as a supervisor. But boy, he did well on that old personality test.