[In response to another poster who suggested that most parents would probably want their children to be able to go to an Ivy League college ...]
Well, I for one would NOT want my kids to go to ANY of those schools. They are nothing but liberal brainwashing camps, and the joke is on you as YOU pay them ungodly amounts of money to do that to your kids. With colleges the way they are, and the market place being saturated with incompetent college grads, I am going to urge my sons to go to a good trade school and become something like a CNC machinist
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Actually not a bad idea. We need more of those people--electricians, plumbers, utility maintenance, exterminators--we don't need more liberal arts majors. I am going to give this a rating of 1.
Do you understand modern capitalism?
ApostateAbe, we reserve those jobs to illegals.
Wait, hang on, just a minute - isn't the rapture imminent and aren't, therefore, all plans for the future futile?
If so, explain why they're considered the best universities of the country, some among the best in the world and why their graduates are among the most influential guys in the world. And why the so-called Christian colleges are, more often than not, considered wind-mill colleges and their graduates are crackpots like Kent Hovind.
That's fine, because in 99.95% of the cases, the Ivy League school don't want Rapture Retards either.
the joke is on you as YOU pay them ungodly amounts of money
Well, I agree there.
Actually, being a CNC operator takes some education and they get quite good pay too. Sure, they won't be likely to gain any political power or make a lasting cultural footprint, but then on the other hand, the same goes for most of you, college degree or not (reality sucks, yes?).
Somehow I don't think an Ivy League college is going to be an option for a RR member.
Nothing wrong with vocational courses though. Over here in the UK (owing to Government policies to increase the numbers of graduates) every other twenty-one year old has a mickey-mouse degree and yet you can't find a plumber.
Isn't it up to your kids what sort of education they want? If your sons want to go and study law at Harvard, why should you stand in their way?
You are an interfering and deranged witch, and you deserve to end up with your sons working at Big Mac and not being able to support you in your dotage.
fergus
Yeah! Because all ivy league kids are incompetent college grads. You know some of us incompetent grad students probably wrote the code for rapture ready. Boy was that a dumb idea!
There will always be competition for jobs. That is life.
"They are nothing but liberal brainwashing camps"
George W Bush ...
Yale, BA in History
If they want to go to trade school, let them, but I get the feeling that even if they don't want to you'll make them because of "oh noez, teh libruls!"
And getting a technical/manual job is just as hard as getting a learned job these days...an unscrupulous employer would rather take an immigrant, legal or non, who'll work for less money. And of course then the fundies start frothing that it's those dirty furriners' fault, not the people who hire them or their own fault for not having the skills to get a better job.
Nothing wrong with a kid learning a trade, and we need more machinists and such. Not every kid is cut out for the Ivy Leagues, or for the college track at high school for that matter. But the kid should be led according to their own particular talents, and ultimately it should be their decision. I gave this a 5 because this asshole wants to make the decision for their kids, and is lying to boot.
How 'bout you let your kid decide what he'd like to do for the rest of his life?
Trade schools are good, if that's all you're interested in. I've gotten a "trade" type degree from a local community college. Hmm, somehow didn't get the type of job I was looking for with that degree. So I went to a medical-training school and got a certificate for medical assisting. Still ended up with dead-end, crap jobs. Now I'm back in school doing what I should have done years ago, getting a real degree - if for no other reason than to prevent my resume from hitting the garbage can as soon as its glanced at.
Shouldn't be a problem. Here in the USA if you want a qualification you can buy one on E-Bay, that's why my boss NEVER accepts an applicant with an American "degree" unless it come from an accreditted university and accompanied by a track record. That filters out all of Rupture Ready for a start.
Please, for god's sake, at least let him finish high school, and at a REAL school. That way there will be some hope, and hey, he might even decide for himself what to do with his life! If he picks trade school, good for him. At least he'll have a basic education, more than is probably true of half of fundamentalists.
Yeah you're in a real position of power there. Operating.. a robot who's basically doing your job.
Yep.
Good... solid ... future.
Indeed there is, and your comment shows how little you know about the area.
"They are nothing but liberal brainwashing camps,"
Yeah they fill the students heads with facts and reality and force them to think. Not something you want to spend money on.
What's fundie about this is that he doesn't give a rat's ass whether his child is gifted or intelligent, or could get into a fulfilling career that cannot be shipped overseas. All he cares about is that his child goes to a school where all he'll learn is a trade and won't be exposed to anything that calls into question his rigid fundamentalist beliefs.
I used to be a christian and then I became a CNC machinist. Now, I am an atheist and CNC machinist. Since you seem to be confused about the causation/corrolation scheme, I'll just let you chew on that for a while.
Confused?
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