What does this mean? Well, it seems that the conventional practice of separating educational tracks based on college ambitions is no longer applicable in today’s economy. So, how does a parent ensure that a child is ready? Remember a previous post discussed how 3/4 of college prep students weren’t ‘prepped.’ That means that those young adults aren’t ready to enter the job market either. It seems that using objective academic standards to assess skill level is the direction to head. The challenge for us is doing this well at home.

My kids have gone to a few camps, summer church camps, space camp. Pretty tame stuff. But, check this it out. It’s Explosives Camp! That’s right, I can send my son to a University of Missouri Rolla camp to learn how to blow things up. (He’s eager to do just that. And my husband wants to go. OK, I confess. It sounds fun to me, too.) Turns out there’s a lot to learn, underground explosions, military explosives, dynamite, detonators and fireworks displays.

Seems so much more sophisticated than the teenage prank of the cherry bomb in a mailbox.

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