Stanton D. answered • 01/14/22
Tutor to Pique Your Sciences Interest
Well Jamie J.,
The question asked is, what are your thoughts?
What I , as a white. elderly retired chemist, who had ample opportunities to study interesting topics, thinks, is pretty much irrelevant here.
It might have caught your eye, if you had the same ads inserted into the article as I had, that "junkguysnj" was an advertiser. It even pointed out that it was "owned by veterans". Right there, women (for example) need not apply -- it's a bunch of ex-military guys, after all.
Yes, there is vast disparity in staffing at professional levels with respect to gender, color or other minority identification, and so on.
I have taught public inner-city school (mostly middle and high school), and I note that attitudes toward education there differed from where/when I grew up. About 1/3 of the students were there to learn, and they stayed engaged with the classwork. About 1/3 could go either way on a particular day, wide mood swings I could write off to adolescence. And 1/3 were there only because the adults in their lives forced them to be there, physically. Their focus was on what they would do after school, perhaps. Not on possible career prep, or skills.
Ambition and opportunity need to be linked very young, I think.
-- Cheers, --Mr. d.
