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I'm back in school after over a decade out. Luckily for me, I'm doing all my classes online.
One, it's convenient for me because I'm a new dad.
Two, they would require much more from me than just the classes I want to take.
Three, the cost was much lower.
Four, I was not limited to one school. I'm taking courses from multiple schools.
Five, the most relevant to the thread: the students.
I work with a lot of these students and I can honestly say they are some of the dumbest people I've ever met. How they manage to crawl out of bed in the morning let alone pass some of the classes they take is beyond me. Even driving on campus is a task because they are so immersed in typing on their phone and listening to music while trying to cross at a busy intersection all the while not looking up once to see if a car might be making a turn or coming through.
Not too long ago, I was training a new employee at my work place. We were putting together truss for a concert and this kid actually asked me which way he had to turn the bolt to tighten it. You've got a 50/50 chance there, sport. Either the nut comes off or it tightens. It's really not that difficult. Have you really never tightened a bolt in your life before? Righty tighty, lefty loosey, maybe?
The work ethic of these kids is also pathetic at best. They spend more energy trying to figure out how to do as little as possible. I've had to yell at many a student to stop whining and just do the damn job or go the hell home. It's even worse when we're moving something heavy and they are half-assing it which upsets the balance of whatever we are lifting. It would actually be easier for me to take their whole side myself than to juggle around trying to find the correct balance to move something.
Then there is the phone issue... these kids can't get off their damn phones. Our job is pretty lax; we're permitted to use our phones while on the clock but common sense tells you that you don't use them while you're expected to be actually working. You use them when you're on break or when standing by to stand by. Half the time they think they aren't expected to be doing anything at that moment because their face is buried in their screen. Our job is dangerous enough as it is, adding this into the equation is just moronic.
The scary thing is that some of these people are going to school to do things like engineering and some pretty hefty science based careers. They just completely lack any amount of common sense.
Yup, happy to be homeschooling.
One, it's convenient for me because I'm a new dad.
Two, they would require much more from me than just the classes I want to take.
Three, the cost was much lower.
Four, I was not limited to one school. I'm taking courses from multiple schools.
Five, the most relevant to the thread: the students.
I work with a lot of these students and I can honestly say they are some of the dumbest people I've ever met. How they manage to crawl out of bed in the morning let alone pass some of the classes they take is beyond me. Even driving on campus is a task because they are so immersed in typing on their phone and listening to music while trying to cross at a busy intersection all the while not looking up once to see if a car might be making a turn or coming through.
Not too long ago, I was training a new employee at my work place. We were putting together truss for a concert and this kid actually asked me which way he had to turn the bolt to tighten it. You've got a 50/50 chance there, sport. Either the nut comes off or it tightens. It's really not that difficult. Have you really never tightened a bolt in your life before? Righty tighty, lefty loosey, maybe?
The work ethic of these kids is also pathetic at best. They spend more energy trying to figure out how to do as little as possible. I've had to yell at many a student to stop whining and just do the damn job or go the hell home. It's even worse when we're moving something heavy and they are half-assing it which upsets the balance of whatever we are lifting. It would actually be easier for me to take their whole side myself than to juggle around trying to find the correct balance to move something.
Then there is the phone issue... these kids can't get off their damn phones. Our job is pretty lax; we're permitted to use our phones while on the clock but common sense tells you that you don't use them while you're expected to be actually working. You use them when you're on break or when standing by to stand by. Half the time they think they aren't expected to be doing anything at that moment because their face is buried in their screen. Our job is dangerous enough as it is, adding this into the equation is just moronic.
The scary thing is that some of these people are going to school to do things like engineering and some pretty hefty science based careers. They just completely lack any amount of common sense.
Yup, happy to be homeschooling.
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