It’s June and students and their parents are celebrating a pivotal moment in their lives. High School Graduation.
High School graduation means different things to different people. Aside from the parties and the senior trip to the beach, it can mean ending a long struggle for academic achievement at the most basic level for some students or highest possible level for others. Some students go on to jobs, careers, or more education. Others languish for a few years figuring out what their lives will be. The journey to success or fulfillment doesn’t always come in a straight line.
Whatever we think of graduation personally, it does come with a specific expectation in the public education system. When a school system graduates students, they are saying that the student has accomplished basic competencies so he/she can be a productive member of society. In Maryland, graduation requirements vary from district to district:
One interesting thing about these differences is that only nine counties require at least a half credit of “Financial Literacy” a requirement that has been discussed for years in the legislature without passing. I’ve heard many people say this is something that students need. Of course, now Governor Moore has signed a mandate for “Environmental Literacy.”
If it comes from Salisbury University- it means you’re a midwit who stupidly fell for the “everyone needs to go to college scam”. Enjoy paying off your debts forever while looking down your nose at the MAGA plumber or electrician you hired becuase they don’t want to change their child’s sex.
Very well stated 8:15
Here is another spin on this.
2004 HS graduate, its now your 20th reunion, how have things work out for you? Check all that apply.
A. Single
B. In debt
C. Divorced
D. Working 2 jobs
E. Still loving at home
F. All the above
So many grads have already shown the uselessness of the degrees and the institutions that issued them.
Axing questions during an interview – or resumes with pronouns are clear give-aways of the candidate in front of the interviewer… Sometimes the name of the university gives it away and the interview never takes place!
Don’t blame the kids. This farce started with the older generation.
All I heard was, “go to college” from my parents and other family members when I was growing up. (30 years ago). This was from people who never went to college and Dad still got a good job. Mom got to stay home because we could live off of 1 income and raise a family. Nowadays it takes 2 incomes just to live in a dumpy small house. My generation was sold this lie, but I will not pass it on to my kids. Instead of being insulting and hateful we need to teach them better. My kid is learning a trade and doing great.
You want to fix this problem, then defund the colleges. This will stop the kids from being indoctrinated and saddled with debt. Our government seeks to enslave us and no one is coming to rescue us. Our generation has to act now for these kids. Instead of hating on them we need to encourage them.
Exactly. That’s all I heard growing up to. Looking back, my biggest regret is not serving in the military. It wasn’t even an option that I felt like was on the table. That being said, we’ve told our kids, you don’t have to go to college. Military or learn a trade. If it’s military, you’ll still be 38 after 20yrs and can get a degree then. Honestly, having 18yr olds decide what they want to do for the rest of their life is a big part of the problem also. They’ve got no experience that can guide that decision.
It doesn’t mean didly-squat!!
.it means its time to move on to our most popular learning institution on the shore – ECI
No many kids want to learn a trade 12:51, it doesn’t envolve a cell phone.
12:51 here …… Believe it or not many do. I just recently found out that the State of MD is actually encouraging apprenticeship. I think the goal is around 45 % enrolled in trades. My work is getting involved with the program to help get these kids back. There are candidates interested, but they are looking for businesses willing to accommodate them. If you know any businesses that are interested in hosting apprentices have them reach out to the MD Division of labor – apprenticeship program.
Learn a trade, even if they never use it- esp. for boys. They NEED to feel useful. If your son can change the oil in a car, or figure out which breaker needs to be replaced, or knows how to use a saw- even if he becomes a white collar worker- – he will have a skill to fall back on in hard times. He will know how the real world works. He will be 100% more useful to the opposite sex than the little soy-boy who cries into his iPhone that he has a flat tire. Girls what men who know how to get things done. I knew a freind in high school who became a plumber- he makes WAY more than a college grad, has little debt- and I daresay he has more common sense and humility than the average “white people are racists because my professor told me so and I believe everything my professor says” college liberal.
Wor Wic has basic electrical classes, or hvac classes- anything is better than nothing.
Get going, young men. Time is wasting.