{"id":612680,"date":"2024-04-08T11:51:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=612680"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:10:10","slug":"home-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/08\/home-schooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Schooling?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Starting from the end backwards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> First, the high school exit exam is really really easy, maybe the only things which are harder include math and science. Otherwise everything is easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Things which I find all of them more bizarre include the writing portion; the rules seem pretty arbitrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">K-12 for the sake of what?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> OK, now that I am super educated, and Cindy is also super educated, the question is; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is college worth it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Perhaps college is only really worth it if you desire to study something super hard-core like engineering, or if you aspire to become a doctor. But technically you could just study this online yourself. If you really wanted to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Are colleges a scam?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> Being born in 1988, and having my parents immigrate from South Korea, having me born here, the question is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is college <em>worth it<\/em>?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I think for first generation kids, it makes sense. If your parents haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had the university experience, or freshly immigrated from a different country, then I think university and college makes sense. But for everyone else, not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Things which I think are a scam:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Art schools: I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s any good reason to go to art school, besides networking. But you could still do not working without going to art school.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A typical humanities major: Just studying the humanities, and taking on any sort of debt is foolish.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other majors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It seems that knowing computer science doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hurt. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from the end backwards: First, the high school exit exam is really really easy, maybe the only things which are harder include math and science. Otherwise everything is easy. Things which I find all of them more bizarre include the writing portion; the rules seem pretty arbitrary. K-12 for the sake of what? OK, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612680"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612691,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612680\/revisions\/612691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}