Today, I sold some windows to a counselor who works for LaSalle High School in the Milwaukie area. Anyway, while talking to her about various topics, she related to me a program that their sister school in North Portland has begun. Very cool! (perhaps, as one example, this is kind of what Gingrich had in mind all along....) http://www.delasallenorth.org/corporate-internship-program/
Experience is what counts these days anyway. Ask my 26 year old friend with an MBA and little work experience how well his job hunt is coming.
Dude you have no idea what shit I had to go through just to get into the music industry. I had to play A&R bitch boy for 2 years before they gave me a shot at "street team bitch boy" for another year. Both were free gigs just for experience. Some of the A&R reps told me they had to work for free for 5 years before they had a paying gig.
5 full days per month for the whole school year for 4 years? So like 1/4 of their high school days? So they get the equivalent of 3 years of school at a 4-year high school. It's as if they skipped their senior years. Quality colleges won't accept them. Most high schools have something like that for a week in the senior year and then they write a project about what they saw. How come nowadays we have all this sissy sister talk? Do you call them brother schools 50% of the time? What's wrong with related or associated?
So true. I surpassed a few peers who had far "greater" education than I did. I worked hard as an intern, and found a school that had a respected program in my field that would allow me to manage the internship and the studies. And I saw a lot of people pay more money for educations at "better" schools. Well, I have advanced further in my near-decade in the "real world", make good money, have far less in student loans, and have already moved on to accept better opportunities at greener pastures. It's going to be interesting how "higher education" changes over the next decade, as people continue to struggle, and tuition continues to increase at staggering rates.
You can always swear off sex and join a convent. [video=youtube;9kyYwj7KQKQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9kyYwj7KQKQ[/video]
That reminds me, have you ever heard of the story surrounding Martin Luther's wife? http://www.reformationtours.com/site/490868/page/204052
So a gang of 11 nuns escaped a convent. Imagine if Homeland Security had been involved. They would have killed them with drones that fly faster than a nun.
I can only imagine that the droning on of Mother Superior, effectively, would have been their worse option.
The program sounds like a great way for companies to lay off unskilled office temps and get high schoolers to do their photocopying and coffee making done for them for free. Win-win. Who cares if these kids miss lots of classes in history, english, math, science, etc. That shit is for rubes. Kids need to get on their goddamned career track by the age of 13 or they'll get left behind. You think the software engineers at Google fucked around with those liberal elitist bullshit math classes? Fuck no. You are not getting into a decent university if you don't get real world experience with a stack of papers and a stapler. I say we go even earlier. Let's take a long hard look at Gingrich's idea of raising a legion of grade school janitors. We're getting our asses handed to us internationally when it comes to pretty much every measure of primary and secondary education, and this is exactly the kind of program that can turn it around. Germany is always going to need people who can staple.
Come on, Mook.... Tell us how you really feel. On a side note.... not sure I follow the dig on Germany. Generally speaking, they work a lot harder for less money (albeit better long-term benefits) than their equivalents here in the US. And they have some good on-the-job training programs for those close to being out of HS.
Actually, the various employers pay for the labor. The money is sent to the school to help off-set the the student's tuition.
Well that's cool. So the temp is laid off so the business can pay the school not to educate the student. I don't see the payment amount listed on the site. I'm guessing it's so fantastic they dare not show it. Anyway, yeah, I've had a certain amount of experience with unpaid internships at the college level. Some can be great, but a lot of them are complete ripoffs. At the high school level I'd be much, much more impressed with vocational programs focused at giving non-college-bound kids experience in a trade. Helping somebody do actual electrical work or plumbing seems like more valuable experience for the non-college-bound than "the importance of making a positive first impression, guidelines for professional office attire, honing communication skills and customer service, and operating basic office equipment." That shit sounds about as improving as watching a 10 hour "The Office" marathon, or the con-job that is being an Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee.
