School Daze:

 Covid 19 has scrambled educational procedures, giving kids options on how they are going to continue their learning.

Not to worry. My own experience with the system tells me that those who intend to get educated will get educated.

There are no guarantees in what part formal schooling plays in a successful life. Nor is the definition of formal schooling the same at all levels. 

Take, for example, the case where a young man arrived in Canada with $200 and a certificate in Tool & Die Making in his pocket. He hoped to use that to make a living here.

That guy with papers for an obscure (in north America) trade was Frank Stronach.

For the Millennials, Frank Stronach can be Googled. Or simply Google Magna International.

It would be interesting to speculate on what would have happened to Frank Stronach if he had tried to get his education in Canada. Would he have been streamed into the non-existent trades section of the curriculum as he had in Austria where, it appears, the trades are taken and taught seriously?

Or, with attention to no child be left behind, would he have been offered a dumbed-down system of studies and streamed into an arts program where he might have eventually qualified to teach underwater basket weaving or drama?

Interesting thought.