Education for 2025...
From: Chuck Darling
March 21, 2025
Re: Education
The Federal Department of Education
has been officially abolished.
Good.
Let the States manage their Education.
I went to Public Schools in the 60's
and 70's.
Wood Shop in 7th Grade: I built an
end table using hand tools, drill press, and lathe.
Metal Shop in 8th Grade, I soldered sheet metal with gas-fired soldering irons,
and cast a head of Lincoln in Aluminum.
I built a Pin-vise with Metal Lathe, Drill Press, and Shaper in 9th Grade at Tech.
Even my University was public...
State University of New York at Buffalo.
My design was DTL logic 6 diodes, no transistors. We built our designs the next day in Lab .
I could have gone many places.
I had a Regents Scholarship,
and West Point sent me an acceptance
in my Junior year at Hutch Tech.
I was in the Who's Who in Technical Schools
in 1975...
I had studied Computer Electronics,
plus full academics, and two years of
German (elective) in high school...
My German teacher was a survivor
of the WWII Dachau prison camp.
He told us all about it.
Considering my technical degree,
and the end of the Vietnam War,
I felt that further technical study
would only duplicate the education
I already had, in terms of Calculus,
We studied Limits, Differentiation,Integration, Trapezoidal Rule
and Simpsons Rule at Hutch Tech.
And a required 4th year of Technical English, and Mass Media.
And, since there were no Personal Computers, (The 8080 was just invented.)
I foresaw an electronic degree leading
me into the Defense Industry, building
better weapons..
So I began studying Biology, and
Psychology, and Italian. (Pre-Med...)
Later (after 5 years of double degree,
for which I received no diploma,
due to incompletes in both my majors:
My Psych Methods instructor left
due to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma,
which was endemic at the Ridge Lee
Campus, where the Psych and Computer
Departments held their courses; and
I had skipped writing some final papers in Italian (with arrangements with my professors)
due to time conflicts
with technical course exams...)
I was also active in my church ...
A born-again Catholic...
Doing music at Mass for free.
Then I got engaged, and could find no work except Retail...
After I got married, I took a year of Pascal, hoping to find
a solid job ... I bought a Timex-Sinclair 1000, and a Commodore 64, and wrote programs.
Still nothing until 1987, when I began
at Osmose.
They used Pascal.
I did well at Osmose, repairing meters,
Maintaining 350 hand-held Computers,
Supervising. the Federal Credit Union,
Acting as Founding Secretary of
Activities Club, LLC, which allowed Osmose
to have Christmas Parties...
Playing Doubles Badminton with
Bob Weber, the Chief Operating Officer...
Then, after my former wife and I bought
a 1500 sq foot house north of Buffalo,
My supervisor got rid of me,
then hired my wife, who later
divorced me,
sold the house,
and told my college scholarship
kids not to talk to me...
Homeless ever since.
Education should prepare you for life.
Perhaps a consortium of
HIGH-TECH CEOs can develop
a curriculum shared by the States,
So that students are prepared to. work
when they graduate High school.
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