My youngest is wasting his mother’s retirement funds at a liberal private college. Thinks his degree will be in computers. He knows nothing about the hardware and less about software. He does play computer games.
The level of difficulty his 200 level comp sci class achieves does not rival the ASCII dot matrix picture code the children in 1979 were conjuring up. I am fairly certain the current textbook is meant for coloring and coding is to be done in crayons. clay > On Sep 28, 2019, at 10:36 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Some kids are college material and some aren't. IMO, it's criminal to conn a > kid into running up tens of thousands of student loans to "study" useless > stuff that will not make them employable. > > I think there are two systemic failures in the current US educational > establishment: the kids never learn to deal with failure and they never learn > to think. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rick> Knoble via Mercedes >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] New Addition >> >> Awesome! That is one of my biggest gripes is putting a kid in college that >> doesn't belong there. (I did) There is no shame in having a trade, although >> some white collar workers, and elite politicians may believe otherwise. He >> gets >> to work with his mind and his hands. Plus, he will make six figures, if he so >> desires. Well done dad! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
