Post AvjevpGFCdXmmxGAwS by dan613@ottawa.place
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(DIR) Post #Avcu6UhqcIiTfKdow4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T15:20:07Z
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@Sunny @LilahTovMoon When students in HS have to hold down a job during the school year it hurts their education. Summer jobs are another matter. Students may choose courses that are less academically challenging to keep their grades up, or their grades may fall.It also makes things like being on a sports team or in a club difficult.
(DIR) Post #AvcuK2gTbCjUoKSaQ4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T15:22:34Z
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@Sunny @LilahTovMoon I say this as someone who worked at a mall tutoring center all through HS to save money for tuition. I would have gotten better grades if I could have only worked summers but that was not an option. As a teacher I find most teens are excited to get a job, and overestimate how much they can do and how little sleep is OK.
(DIR) Post #AvdOFjhdE78VPKra52 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-06-29T20:57:57Z
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@Sunny @LilahTovMoon Having adult guidance is very important. Just telling teens to "get a job" isn't. Making $3000 over a few months at an after school job as a teen isn't a good use of a young person's time in most cases and if they can afford to do other things such as study, learning a language, learning a skill it's a better use of time. I don't think the kids I've taught who worked needed all those hours to get how budgets and taxes work.
(DIR) Post #AvjVR8ei9332NKzqFM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-02T19:46:42Z
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@LevZadov @spv @Sunny I am always disappointed to find the the idea of a universal liberal arts education remains a deeply radical idea. But if you think about what it can do, it’s not that shocking there is resistance. I don’t care if you drive a cab or do farm work or if you test rocket ships you should know a little history, science, math and about arts and culture— enough to have your own opinions and to just… enjoy life. IDK.
(DIR) Post #AvjdlgChvDw7qgCgvA by Shivaekul@infosec.exchange
2025-07-02T21:20:03Z
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@futurebird @LevZadov @spv @Sunny A little philosophy would go a long way.
(DIR) Post #Avje4RL5PgfnFS4Iwi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-07-02T21:23:27Z
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@LevZadov @spv @Sunny Education isn’t just “training” you train a dog or a LLM so it can assist you with the work you need done.Kids deserve more.
(DIR) Post #AvjevpGFCdXmmxGAwS by dan613@ottawa.place
2025-07-02T21:33:04Z
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@futurebird @LevZadov @spv @Sunny My degree program was for future Canadian Forces officers. I had more humanities electives than any other engineering program in Ontario, well above the accreditation requirement. The military needs well rounded people.
(DIR) Post #AvjpPUWZregahjgT1k by spv@mastodon.spv.sh
2025-07-02T23:30:25Z
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@futurebird @LevZadov @Sunny i'm really confused. are you trying to disagree with me? i absolutely agree that baseline education is a good thing. i want more people capable of critical thinking, i want more intelligent people. the point i was trying (and perhaps failing) to make was more that not everyone NEEDS pre calc, or will even use it. if "cooking 101" or "how to ask someone out without being creepy 101" was available, i think that class would be of more use. not that pre calc shouldn't be
(DIR) Post #AvjyPTMp4BcuhcBfJQ by cobalt123@beige.party
2025-07-03T01:11:19Z
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@futurebird @LevZadov @spv @Sunny I just get so disappointed that the majority of younger people I actually talk with IRL have absolutely no idea what the heck I am talking about whether history, literature, music or art. OMG the ignorance is staggering, a loss they don't even know they are having. And it is not "made up" in knowledge about Tik Tockers and You Tubers or pop artists and current fast fashions. Sigh. Deep sigh. Sighs, again.
(DIR) Post #AvkOClPlFkjlieA7CC by tsrams@c.im
2025-07-03T06:00:20Z
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@futurebird @LevZadov @spv @Sunny I'm for this 100%. I have an engineering degree as well as a bachelor of arts degree and, over time, I feel the bachelors of arts has proved more valuable. Many of my colleagues with just an engineering degree don't contribute a lot to the company as leaders over time because they just don't have very good critical thinking and communication skills. Many seem to think they "have it all figured out" and don't seem to deal with change as well as folks with a liberal arts education. These are just my observations and are subject to small sample bias (among others). I feel a lot of our communication coaching at work amounts to dumbing things down for each other.
(DIR) Post #AvkOxy5PxOdWdA9hM8 by Stegosaurus@sciences.social
2025-07-03T06:08:52Z
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@futurebird @LevZadov @spv @Sunny For me, liberal means the ability to think for myself, with a general appreciation of all knowledge.Then again, I am a dinosaur.