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Posted on 09/26/2025 9:02:29 AM PDT by fwdude
- I visited a public high school in Upton, Wyoming, that's changing the conversation around college. - The school has a personalized learning structure, preparing students for one of three futures. - I was surprised at the level of individualization for every student's career and education path.
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Ironically, I think this is how learning was done at our founding.
Urban schools are the same.
They emphasize career choices too:
Drug Dealing
Rapping
Gang Banging
You can choose more than one...............
“preparing students for one of three futures” — activist, welfare case, other form of parasite?
the humanities are ignored because education is largerly undertaken for contemporary socioeconomic reasons, as if we live in a material world.
Those who are dissatisfied with the German system become huge proponents of the usual notion of teaching the basics to everyone, and allowing the individual to specialize themselves, in any field that they wish, or even in multiple fields over their lifetimes. We aren't worker bees.
I had a generation zero German in my high school Embedded Computing class. She went back to Germany for university study, and then came back to enroll at Georgia Tech. Her experience with the German system really pissed her off. She’s a big girl. You don’t want to piss her off.
The German model of channeling students into professional apprenticeships was one reason for the country’s rapid development after WWII. Of course, those kids were little Germans who could read, write, and do math before they graduated. So it probably wouldn’t work with the products of NEA conditioning.
This is great, and I wish many more had these opportunities. I do not see teachers unions going for this though. It seems like it would be more difficult for the teachers to adapt to many students versus just lining them up and teaching the same thing all the time.
Also, this probably only works where parents are involved. Too many places expect the schools to do everything and the parents don’t have to do anything.
“college is not their only option”
This. I think students should be permitted to graduate at 16 and enter a trade as an apprentice. It makes sense for those not interested in college.
That model won't scale well.
Cowboyin’ and oilfield roughneckin’ would be good choices there.
When I was a kid, our town had 5 high schools. One was college prep. Was was a general high school. One was for trades like construction, plumbing, and electrical. One was for “business support” (ie Secretaries and bookkeepers). One catholic school.
Everyone picked in 8th grade where they were going.
It worked pretty well.
In the 80’s they combined three of the four public.
They’ve spent the past 20 years trying to rebuild the four paths. It’s never going to achieve the success the city had from 1920 through the 80s.
But, the educators felt good that they were increasing diversity and getting rid of “stigmas” associated with being a “ditch digger/construction person.” The city is an urban desert now.
Average of 16 students per grade level. That is about 80 students with 11 teachers. This is from the school’s web site. No First Robotics for those students, that’s for sure.
agree fully.
we see SO many young people who were forced or coerced into college studies when they were not prepared for them, not interested in them, or simply didn’t want to spend more time in schooling when they could have (if left free to choose) gone into a good trade or apprenticeship to pursue lives they were more interested in
plus, many colleges teach a lot of garbage anyway, not anything like “genuine” liberal arts or humanities or history or political science, etcetera. At these schools, even if a student really really wanted to learn any of these (non-primarily-career-oriented) subjects well, they could not do it (as these subjects have been infiltrated, co-opted, polluted, and internally-replaced with leftist propaganda-infested rubbish at these schools, including we must note several of our famous “elite” colleges)
—”You can choose more than one.....”
And in all this time, I thought it was always a choice between being a cop or a priest?
That’s just for the Irish....................
“The German model of channeling students into professional apprenticeships was one reason for the country’s rapid development after WWII. Of course, those kids were little Germans who could read, write, and do math before they graduated. So it probably wouldn’t work with the products of NEA conditioning.”
Good point.
When I started high school (in a time and galaxy far far away) we were told you has to enroll in the college prep classes or shop classes and be relegated to a life time of manual labor.
That would be my concern. Can you change trajectories if you want to? I think Britain has something like this, if you pick trade school, you can never change.
The Kryptonian method, you are bred for a job.
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