Big drop in kindergarden enrollment and birth rates across the country

[greenmonster]

Kids are caught between long-term messaging COLLEGE FOR ALL and reality about how elite, well-paying jobs are actually awarded.

I agree.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I feel high school kids are focused by their parents, school administrators and society on college as the ONLY viable destination after graduation.

There is no exposure to alternatives like apprenticeship programs in the trades, joining the military, police or firefighting, international service organizations, vocational schools, etc.
“Oh no, you wouldn’t want to do that” if the topic comes up.

All the talk is about the A to G requirements to get into UC or CSU like it’s an assembly line with kids on a conveyor belt that must be maintained.

Not everyone is college material. Not everyone WANTS to stay in school another 4-5+ years.

It’s a one size fits all approach that is distasteful to me.

 

[byke]

i sorta get being disconnected (at times). a while back i was going into a fast, blind left sweeper in our van. came head on at two moto riders in my lane passing a car. they were side by side with a full head of steam. the dude on the inside dove back into his lane immediately - no clue how the dude on the outside managed to squeeze in too. missed them by a hair. i was telling a friend about it, and they know i ride. they were all ‘oh my god, you would felt so awful if you’d hit them!’ actually, no. not in the slightest. it would have been their own damn fault. next up - cattle guard on the front bumper. anything else can be hosed off.

I would feel the same way. It all would have been their fault.

Sociopathic callousness will probably score more points among the teens on 4chan.

 

[littlebeast]

i’m assuming you’re referring to the moto riders who had a complete disregard for the safety of the other motorists on the road.

 

[byke]

 

[Rtmac]

My brother is retired OFD. He says that every single "moto vs car" he ever responded to the driver said the same thing... "It's not my fault, he came out of nowhere."
I would be devastated, regardless of who was at fault (as I feel everyone here would, in reality)