crazy hypothetical idea: a high school that helps you get a software eng job after graduating from high school

(it's a crazy hypothetical idea, please don't downvote! I'm just throwing the idea out there for discussion).

What is the economic advantage?

I'm quite certain I could teach the average high school student enough skills to get $100k+ straight out of high school. It's going to be more than a 6-week bootcamp, but if you give me 4 years? Absolutely I can do it.

Right now the average high school graduate makes $34,000/year.

So that's a 3x difference.

In the technology world, rule of thumb is you need a product to be 3x better in order for people to adopt your product over others. So 3x is quite a big deal here.

How this would be implemented?

As someone who's worked as a software engineer in high tech, I'm quite certain you could've taught me the skills to be a software engineer during high school. You'd have to cut out certain classes like metal working, wood working, PE, Art, 2nd language, advanced English Literature (I think it was AP Lit or AP Lang? Or both, I forgot). You'd also replace some of the advanced physics classes with just CS classes. You can cut pottery classes too (I took this one in high school too).

Basically what if you could just go to trade schools during the high school years that allow you to get a job in that trade.

So you'd learn Physics if you wanted to do something in Mechanical Engineering, for instance. But if you wanted to do CS, then you wouldn't take Physics classes.

Some of you guys are going to say "we already do that with 6-week bootcamps", but I can tell you that they don't offer anywhere near the amount of skills you'd need to have productivity in a large tech co.

Submitted June 24, 2023 at 02:42AM by Kasprosian https://ift.tt/dOpwgDl