So Professional

So, if you ask students what they want to become when they grow up, they always seem to aspire to the same few professions: doctor, firefighter, police officer, lawyer, veterinarian, and so on. Some seriously deranged kids will say "teacher," but they obviously just say that to please the teacher. No sane individual would pick that as a profession.

A way for white parents to circumvent the annoying fact that their little angels have to share a room with black kids (can you imagine the trauma?) is to enroll their kids in a "magnet" or "choice" program. Those programs aim to prepare the students to careers in the fields of medicine, business, law, engineering, the arts,... However, if you look around you and see the jobs that actual people have, you quickly realize that our schools do very little to prepare students for those jobs. Real jobs include bagger at your local supermarket, barista, or being the lady that pushes the rich old lady's wheelchair at the mall. We need academies to prepare our students for those careers. We need the District to finance more of those academies, and let kids explore a wider variety of possible professions. Among those are:

• Game show host
• Sad white clown
• Sports team mascot
• Crime scene cleaner
• Taxidermist
• Telemarketer
• Used car salesperson
• Road Construction Flagger
• Funeral Director

Don't laugh. All those are valid professions, and many (including flagger) require an official state training and certification. The French say: "Il n'est point de sot métier." There is no silly job.