RE: Fucking Cops: Volume II
November 1, 2015 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2015 at 9:08 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:Dropout rates are lower than ever. College attendance is higher than ever (whether or not that's a good thing is another question, and I think I'm on your side on that one). Turns out all that did was make it so that you can't get a job almost anywhere unless you have a BSc, anymore.
Yeah...and like Carlin said above, they all make the Honor Roll, too. All we have done is dumb things down so that the degrees are virtually worthless.
From earlier this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grad...raduation/
Quote:Why are so many college students failing to gain job skills before graduation?
The problem is complex but the notion that students are little sponges just eager to soak up knowledge has got to go. They expect to be told how fucking wonderful they are regardless of what they do and, yes, the "self-esteem" movement is a primary cause of that. My college profs didn't give a shit if I lived or died. He had 299 other kids in his lecture hall.
I have a friend - and I'm very proud of her - who went back to college at the age of 39 and got her degree. It was not her fault that the standards had dropped so far. I frequently helped her out with research since she was working the whole time and was frankly stunned to see that web sites were considered sufficient to support a paper.
She graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Then I have a niece who is a total airhead. She told my wife that she never had to read an actual book other than the text book in her 4 years. She made the honor roll, too.
This is simply bullshit and I can't blame businesses for not being impressed with the applicants they are getting. Education has become a commodity. You spend a shitload of money and get a degree and you expect to get a transcript with virtually all "A's" on it. And they aren't worth shit.
Now, you cannot blame the kids for any of that. They didn't do it. But they are both the victims and the beneficiaries of the system which has evolved. And then, there are the
helicopter parents:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/20...just-can-t
Quote:I know, I know. People have been worrying about The Kids These Days since time immemorial. And yet, older people I talk to -- ones old enough to remember seeing the low-speed, low-stakes train wreck that was my own generation hurtling through college and into the workforce -- confirm my impression that This Time Really Is Different. The upper stratum of the Trophy Kids really are going into college expecting to live in a sort of Nerf universe where nothing ever really hurts, and there's always an adult to pick them up and put them back on track. And they're coming out into the workforce expecting the same sort of personal concierge service from a world that, as I was myself dismayed to find 20 years ago, really doesn't have time to care how they feel.
My apologies to the Mods. Would one of you split this off into a Modern Education Thread. I should have done it myself because I knew what would happen.
Sorry.