the parantheticals are referencing teacher names to tell which room to go to for that presentation – left in a couple so you could appreciate the very appropriate location for the Law Enforcement presentation

these options leave a lot to be desired and make me wonder how the fuck they recruit for them, because it doesn’t seem like there’s much effort to get a wide breadth of interests and options.

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    I like how “Information Technology and Careers” is lumped into one group, but “sports coaching / professional athlete” and “sports officiating” have their own sections.

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      it’s truly ridiculous

      the fact that this shit flies year-to-year is evidence of how few parents are actually paying attention, which is absolutely a symptom of capitalism – nobody has time to give a fuck about how their kids are being indoctrinated

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    My career isn’t on there, I couldn’t even smash it into one of the categories. Do you have to be represented on the list to be invited?

    drone pilot

    doomer

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      fr fr

      like, there’s so much that is missing from this list, but we have Military plus Drone Pilot, like those are actually separate things

      it’s just so bleak, the difference between what they’re telling kids now about their future versus what I was told in the late 90s is just wild. “learn to oppress, or else” seems to be the sum of it

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        Aren’t these usually just dependant on who volunteers to come to them? Not surprising that’s it’s a bunch of bullshit jobs and executives showing up because the people with real careers are too busy with actual work and aren’t given the time to come talk to kids about their industry.

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            I’m thinking more like people who constantly come in and say they want to do this. Like parents who are so annoying that they are given this role to shut them up. Them and parents who are in industries big enough to have a plan to recruit from primary school

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              from what I understand, this

              parents who are so annoying that they are given this role to shut them up

              is not a thing here, which might be because we’re in a pretty rural, pretty poor area, and there aren’t enough bored parents with enough disposable income

              parents who are in industries big enough to have a plan to recruit from primary school

              there are no big industries here anymore.

              from primary school

              this is actually secondary school – my son will graduate high school next spring

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    What flyover state is this from?

    No manufacturing

    No traditional trades (plumbing, electrical, carpentry)

    No metal working trades

    No repair or automation

    No even anything CLOSE to automotive related jobs

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        Non-meme answer: states in the middle of the country where there’s not much to differentiate them to the point where people don’t bother touching down. If you were going from Seattle to Miami, you’d probably want to get off the plane and get on a connection flight in Las Vegas. Or take a route that sends you through LA. But you would want to fly right over Utah, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Hence the term “flyover state.”

        The most exciting thing in Salt Lake City is probably the replica built in 1994 of the McDonald’s Trump visited earlier this week.

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      It might start a little before Broadband and 5G Careers from the title image, but it looks like that’s possibly the entire list.

      SAD

      sad-boi

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        the title image is the beginning of the list

        I asked my kid for what the options actually were when he told me how bummed out he was by them

        once I saw them, I was similarly bummed. how terribly uninspiring.

        we live near-ish to several nationally-respected universities, they could have had speakers about so much more interesting shit

        guaranteed that the people who facilitate this thing every year are barely paid enough to give a fuck, I don’t hate them for not hunting down people from outside our county to inspire our kids. I hate capitalism for making the educational system be set up in such a way that the person in charge of this shit just takes whatever is easiest instead of trying to offer a range of options.