With the exception of one, male coaches were more interested in advancing their own children rather than providing a strong role model and improving the individual skills of all.
I think our educational system has failed our boys. For several years I have worked on a “Tech. Prep” committee to articulate middle and high school curriculum with college career certification programs such as welding, power generation, agriculture, natural resource management/forestry, nursing, firefighting and law enforcement. The state cut our money, but we continue on voluntarily.
I think scouting, 4-H and FFA are great programs that provide reinforcement of moral values, business entrepreneurial experience and great leadership skill building. In these, I think rural communities may have the advantage. Boys need responsibility early in life. At the age of 13, my son was digging post holes and setting irrigation lines. By 14, he was feeding stock on a neighbors ranch while they went on a week's vacation.
Just my two cents.
Ummm ... two cents' worth? More like two kabillion dollars' worth! You are so 100 percent right.
Sometimes, whenever confronted with a problem like this...I just sit back and wonder what would Don Draper would do??? Then I realize that I probably turn into a serial rapist who stick his hands up ladies’ dress or serial killer. Than I think what Roger Sterling would do-—be rich, handsome, martini drinking, womenizing, smoking, gentleman who marries his younger secretary and gets the woman of his dreams pregnant...and I’m good with it.
ps...there’s nothing wrong with a liberal arts or scientific degree....when some guy loses his finger with chainsaw whose going to re-attach it? and whose going to file the insurance claim?