What a future we are sending them into...

It's been a super hot week in our neck of the woods-- capping 85 degrees or more each day. Now, it looks to be a cloudy/rainy/cooler weekend-- figures. Maybe I'll get the rest of my garden in. I hope to. It's all for the best I didn't get plants in the ground-- last weekend, frost. This week, they would have cooked. 

I'm feeling a little "cooked" too-- we'll get through the week, the graduation, and next week with some sort of grace and grit. 

Wish us luck. 



In the meantime, I am having a hard time thinking about the fact that the feds want to somehow tie college programs to potential earnings and apportion or restrict educational loans to those quasi-metrics. If one is going to be an artist, a writer, a social worker-- yeah, pretty much all of the helping professions and the arts-- then funding might not be there. This will really shut down any real progress in the humanities, education, etc. This comes on the heels of the stupid decision to declassify many jobs as "non-professional" and tie a ridiculously low cap to grad school loans for anyone seeking a Masters or above in, for example, teaching or physical therapy (among so many others). Cruelty is the point, isn't it? So many of the jobs now deemed "non-professional" or not earning enough are women and minority-heavy. 

And we are sending these bright young people out into this uncertain future. 

Talk about "cooked." I hope they are successful in ways that bring them joy, not just the paycheck some yahoos in the government seem to think defines success. 

Keep the faith. We have a lot to do.

C


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