article on drop in humanities/arts majors

toodleooo
Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:59:26 +0000

some parents who visit this website actually have kids in college. they have questions at hand here/now but are unlikely to benefit from a lofty discussion like this (college education time/money is it for subjects of passion -LA - or practicality - sci/tech/bus?). because it degenerates after 50 or so posts. if you are such a parent note that many here are telling their own stories, or of kids well past college years, as in “back in the day after i got my english/greek civ ba at smith hey no problem getting a job with the state dept and since then blah blah blah”. maybe things will be like this for your kid, but probably s/he’ll be back home.

the news i hear is that sooner than later fed and state govts will lose a few jobs. that we will have one lawyer for every 50 people. that tenured teachers/professors are being retired early. that the us has outsourced so much of its manufacturing that the economy is mainly about doing each other’s laundry and cooking burgers. so who knows what to do? the kids themselves. if they’re smart, or don’t come from a family that can support them well into their 20s, they’re avoiding academic, la degrees - which was the subject of the wsj article that started this thread in the first place. students are simply voting with their feet.