Posted on 05/29/2022 6:17:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If you know someone who wants to learn a trade look at the Apprentice School in Virginia Beach. They pay the students while they learn. It’s a ship building company but the it teaches multiple trades. https://www.as.edu/
I watched a short “man on the street” video last night (sorry no link). A guy was asking high school and one college grad simple question like “how many states are there”, “who is vice president”, not one could answer those basic questions. Sad, we are doomed.
Regarding item 4 those DOD,etc programs are already financially administered under the DFAR (DOD oriented rules subset of the FAR - Federal Aquisition Regulations). How much more DOD control do you want? Many of the topics come out through the SBIR\STTR program of which DOD is the lion’s share. (NSF participates with a wide range of topics!)
Why would anyone want to save them?
Like asking if we should save those piles of dog poop all over the front yard...
Burn them all down to the ground and send the professors to live in North Korea and Cuba.
In my department the professors generally teach a 4-4 load and teach all of their courses in person (or online). There are also a few full-time adjuncts (some with Ph.D.'s) who teach a 5-5 load. I realize there are doctoral institutions where faculty may have a 2-2 load or even less. We offer master's degrees but no Ph.D.'s.
No, it wasn't Joe Biden.
T.Y.!! its been a while, since loking at F.A.R.’s.
former DoD QA @ Grumman in NY.
I am not surprised. Again, I teach middle school and I am stunned by how utterly stupid the majority of students are.
Further, their parents (largely white, upper middle class professionals) are absolutely vapid idiots.
All of the kids insist they’re going to be important Tik Tok influencers, dancers, rappers, sports figures, etc.
They don’t need educations because they’re all special and only losers who don’t have talent need educations.
It is really scary.
We can thank hand held devices for a lot of this and the “everyone gets a trophy” mindset. My wife’s a teacher and I was a long time school board member so it’s not like I don’t have a perspective. The left’s “long march through the institutions” is now in full display.
Anyone who permits their children screens of any sort beside one weekly movie is committing child abuse imho.
Screens of all sorts harm brain development
All my little idiots can’t exist without their screens. Can’t think anything except what Tik Tok tells them to.
What grade does your wife teach? Private message me if you’d prefer not to say here. I’d love to talk with other people in education. I’m in deep cover — although there are conservatives where I am.
But so many of the teachers are mind numbed left-tards. I keep my views very quiet.
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