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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll quote Mr Crawford, from European History during my lower year:

“I better never catch you disparaging someone with a trade job. There’s a good chance the guy down the street who owns his own plumbing business made more than you will straight out of college.”

So while you’re wringing your hands over the notion that your prep school kid might — shock! — end up with a trade job, the good teachers at those same schools are telling your kid to stop being an arrogant prick. [/quote]

I guess you aren’t paying attention. PE is gobbling up all these industries, so there wont be any plumbing business owners, just stuck as low paid techs digging through literal cr@p. [/quote]

+1. And this constant stream of articles and commentary pitching trades as the end all, be all and the savior for our kids will simply leave them oversaturated.[/quote]

I don't know if oversaturated is the word, but the anxiety about pursuing trades is just the newest fad, following the anxiety about coding. People feel like they have to find "the key" and optimize for it, instead of raising thoughtful, well-educated kids who can turn their hand to a lot of different things as the world changes around them.

When I was 20 I had never even thought about the job I have now in my 40s. The job I got right out of grad school doesn't exist anymore, but I'm still using the skills I learned there. Probably the most impactful class I ever took, K through grad school, was APUSH. The kids will be fine.[/quote]

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