As a teacher I see the push towards college grow every year. Everyone thinks that if we could just get everyone into college the country would fix itself, not true, but that is the ideology in schools. If high schools have a high rate of alumni attending college then they were successful, if their test scores are good, then they were successful, but the reality is that we are pushing kids into college who probably shouldn't be there and by doing so a college degree doesn't mean what it used to. I mean, everyone has a degree but how many are working in there field after college? How many are truly qualified to enter a professional position? I went to school with teachers who had ZERO business being in a classroom, they still have that degree but are working at the local starbucks when they should have been geared towards a trade they could have been successful at. We used to have apprenticeship programs, shop class used to teach people how to build houses, now they teach you how to make a coat rack. Why aren't we offering skill building classes/opportunities for those who might be drop out candidate's? Why aren't we setting these kids up with on the job training where they can learn work ethic, what it means to work, what the value of a dollar is, and maybe even put a little cash in their pocket during the summer because they earned a part time job for all their hard work during the school year? There is no easy answer and I don't contend to have one but sometimes we need to drop the "Gum drops and lolly pops" attitude and take a good hard look at the problem, where we were, and how we get back there...~Anthony
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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