A notice to the wet behind the ear fresh HS grads.

Quote from nutmeg:

All good points but kids better know these things before they graduate.

A little off topic here for a moment. My daughter is in 10 grade, she complained they have spent 4 days on Galileo, including watching an animated cartoon ( she said along the lines of sponge bob). I said we are in a heap of trouble.

Next up, she said she had to write a paper on a current event. I suggest Greece and found her some you tube vidoe's for a quick summary to see if she was interested.

Next day, it seems Greece was one of the suggested hot topics. Now the kicker is, the essay is on "oppression". geesus h crist, leave it to the teachers union to find the Greeks are oppressed.
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I have a son who is a high school senior with a great GPA and awesome test scores. He can't get a job making minimum wage, because they're being taken by guys my age (and older).

His only hope is to get a degree in a field that is in demand. Problem is that by the time he graduates, those jobs will also be outsourced, or filled by H1B's.

Scary times for young people. :confused:
 
Quote from nutmeg:

All good points but kids better know these things before they graduate.

A little off topic here for a moment. My daughter is in 10 grade, she complained they have spent 4 days on Galileo, including watching an animated cartoon ( she said along the lines of sponge bob). I said we are in a heap of trouble.

Next up, she said she had to write a paper on a current event. I suggest Greece and found her some you tube vidoe's for a quick summary to see if she was interested.

Next day, it seems Greece was one of the suggested hot topics. Now the kicker is, the essay is on "oppression". geesus h crist, leave it to the teachers union to find the Greeks are oppressed.
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Great story. Sometimes these liberal bubble heads drive me up the wall for no reason other than the fact that they're wrong but don't have the matter between their ears to know they're wrong!
 
Quote from GordonTheGekko:

Great story. Sometimes these liberal bubble heads drive me up the wall for no reason other than the fact that they're wrong but don't have the matter between their ears to know they're wrong!
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My son in fourth grade was doing a paper with alliterative sentences using fruits. When I suggested the word "tomato" he gave me a look of horror and replied that he would get an automatic "F".

You see, his college educated, Master's degree holding teacher INSISTS that a tomato is a vegetable, despite all factual evidence to the contrary. She went so far as to send a child to the office for arguing the point with her. Luckily for her, it wasn't my child.

These are the people charged with educating our children. :confused:
 
Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

You don't become rich by.

#1 Perpetually leasing an automobile.
#2 Spending 80K to go to college.
#3 Borrowing on the credit card for chinese goods and services.
#4 Not working and saving.
#5 Always buying new.
#6 Trying to impress others.
#7 Sitting around at home playing video games, surfing the internet.
#8 By not self educating yourself every day, and learning something new.
#9 By fearing failure.


If you have any, add them for the noobs coming fresh out of HS.
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Dont go in the nuclear bunker just yet.

Everything on that list reminds me of 1985 and we survived that just find.. Except #7,, although i wish it was around then.

You do remember the cheesy 80" dont you,, the "me" decade. deisgner jeans, crazy ass hair styles, bmw, coke and the other coke, credit cards, LBO, crazy stock market, how every one popped up thier collard on thier Polo shirts,,,. Over leveraged debt, crazy consumerism. That was 1986, although when you are living in it, its hard to see the forest cuz of the tress or something..

Totally far out , dude. (80's)

EF
 
Quote from keeptradin':

My son in fourth grade was doing a paper with alliterative sentences using fruits. When I suggested the word "tomato" he gave me a look of horror and replied that he would get an automatic "F".

You see, his college educated, Master's degree holding teacher INSISTS that a tomato is a vegetable, despite all factual evidence to the contrary. She went so far as to send a child to the office for arguing the point with her. Luckily for her, it wasn't my child.

These are the people charged with educating our children. :confused:
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The Roman empire lasted almost 2000 years, because the smartest people in each town worked for the Empire/Goverment. Thats where the highest pay (legit or not) was at. So thats where the brains went.

Nowadays, the smartest people are at Intel, Google, and wall street. No wonder we have been around for about 250years, and have almost collapsed the whole system twice. Imagine lasting 2000 years??.............

Govt and state pay needs to be the highest, then you will get brains and the competent people in there, until then they will go to CSCO or GS etc..

EF
 
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