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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our school, this started last year and has really accelerated with this year’s senior class. And not just non-profits, but also starting small businesses. Personally don’t like that colleges are rewarding kids starting something and ditching it once apps are done vs. helping established non-profits or learning to work at a typical summer job.[/quote]
I agree. In my opinion, starting small businesses is similarly ill-advised. Kids don't know what they don't know, and if starting and running a business were a true goal, they would learn from others first by...working for a business. "Started my own business" may sound impressive to a teenager, but adults should know better, that such situations are really the blind leading the blind, and under sort-of false pretenses (college admissions) to boot.[/quote]

But my father did that, back before college admissions people cared about such things, and made that business an active thing for about 25 years. I can’t even hint at what the business was, because it became a tiny bit famous, and maybe I’d dox myself. He used the business to pay his way through a university that shows up here occasionally as a respectable safety.

I think that my father could do that partly because my father’s school supported entrepreneurship with a strong Junior Achievement club. Maybe the real problem here is that we have daytrader clubs in high schools instead of Junior Achievement. [/quote]

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