8/7/17 Education Trying To Compete With Modern Gadgets?

    Wife was telling me about one of the conferences she went to last week.  There was a guy talking about educators and how can they reach out to today's students to get their attention in today's fast paced electronic world.  They admit they have lost the battle, kids are barely paying attention in any classroom.  Most interesting thing I thought was the realization that in today's digital world, everyone is working on their own path to stardom.  I have to admit that I started my blog partially to keep a diary for my boys but I was hoping it could become a popular destination to visit.  I have other plans, another being that since I write every day, at some point I would like to write a book or a series of short stories.
    With the modern applications on our phones, people are making money by making videos for YouTube, such as girls doing make-up tutorials, guys doing stupid shit, like the Jackass movies, not to mention the whole sex market that no one can really keep up with and way too many pretty young faces are participating, some have to be minors in high school.  Girls are selling pictures, videos, panties, all of which is easy enough to advertise on Snapchat, Instagram, Kik, Tumbler, Twitter, and so many more.
    With all these distractions and then the pseudo celebrities like the Kardashians who seem to get paid to exist and we celebrate them as modern day heroes.  They do nothing, other than look good on TV, yet in a poll conducted by the group's company more girls wanted to be like a Kardashian than anybody else, this is an indication the world is sick.
    It was bad enough when guys stopped trying to get an education because they were all going to be celebrity sports stars.  Any guy in a small town who played football I'm sure has dreams of doing it at the NFL level and he probably even believes he would, nay should be getting paid to play.  The reality is only the best of the best high school players get to play college ball and then only the best of these players get to attempt to play in the NFL, or NBA, or MLB, which itself insists on filling its teams with players from other countries, leaving even less positions for our dreamy high schoolers to profit at.
    The farther we get from education in the classroom, the less educated our society becomes.  We need to jump on this now.  My opinion is that knowing that only about 20-30 percent of the high school students are going to college, take the rest and offer them the chance to get vocational training which gets you trained and working in a faster path.  If the teachers are only teaching the top 30 percent of students, that should solve the attention problem since only "real" students would remain.  You can "threaten" to take these kids phones and they might react accordingly and pay attention instead of breaking out into a fight with the teacher as another idiot yells "WORLD STAR!!" and student and teacher end up in a brawl.  I hate to admit, but I do watch these type of videos all the time, thus my knowing about their existence.