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Re: High school drop-out rate---rant


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Posted by Bill(Wis) on September 23, 2013 at 09:12:27 from (184.75.123.14):

In Reply to: High school drop-out rate---rant posted by Edd in KY on September 23, 2013 at 08:21:58:

My grandfather's schooling was in a logging camp. That's where he grew up. He could read and write english and was well versed in all forms of the english language including Shakespeare, the Bible, and could cuss with the best of them. He could calculate compound interest in his head and new more about horses and dairy cows than anyone I ever knew. He also played the violin as a violin or a fiddle, whichever kind of music you preferred. Was pretty good with an accordian, too. I was the first member of our family to graduate from High School. That's where they tried to convince me that we should all be striving for one world government. We did autopsies on chickens, pigs, etc. and they taught us that "diversified farming" was the key to success even though my grandfather and father had changed from that to strictly dairy farming 10 years before. Most farmers had adopted a specialized approach by that time, growing whatever fit their particular environment. Potatoes in one region, corn and hogs in another, etc. The schools, in those days, seemed to be behind the times and were boring as anything. The one thing I learned in High School that helped me a great deal for a few years was how to write a good business letter. That translated into writing of all kinds. Reports, estimates, surveys, descriptions, you name it. Now, with IPhones and Emails, that has all changed. I wonder if the schools nowadays are as boring as when I attended?
Nonetheless, there are important things to be learned and attending school is one way to do it.
This reminds me of a friend who dropped out of HS in his junior year and joined the Army. They assigned him to engineer branch and he spent his hitch working on airfield maintenance in Germany. He came back and went to work for a heating and air conditioning firm in Chicago and eventually owned his own HVAC business. He's very comfortably retired now and is probably one of the wealthier members of our class.


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