>>Our son is getting an English (ack!) degree there.
He will need it to properly articulate and diagram “do you want fries with that?”
It has been a while since I taught the children diagramming. Does the prepositional phrase “with that” go under “fries” or is in an adverbial phrase and goes under “do want?”
Perhaps not...with his grades (4.0 at a top tier school with a plus/minus grading system), work ethic, and personality, I expect he will do well in life. People who are smart and motivated don't usually end up at McDonalds. My parents would not have considered paying for college if I majored in some sort of liberal arts, but I found as I settled into a career many years ago I would have been better served with a psychology degree than the science oriented degree my parents approved of. Fortunately, you can change directions with a master's degree...