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A 28-year-old Lake Charles-area woman faces a bevy of charges after Louisiana police said she repeatedly had sex with a 13-year-old boy who she met at the Bible camp where she was a teacher/aide.
According to the Sulphur Daily News, Heather Daughdrill initiated the relationship in June and it continued until a complaint was filed in October. After her arrest on November 29, police told the paper that Daughdrill would pick her victim up from school without his parents' knowledge and subject him to sexual encounters. Louisiana cops also reportedly found sexually explicit texts between Daughdrill and her victim.
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
How is that even possible? I heard that phrase in high school, long before I started college in 1985. Guys used it all the time.
Originally Posted by Donger:
Okay, that makes sense. But I would say that is a very specific case and not applicable to say a BA in Philosophy or History.
You'd be surprised. The field of Gender Studies has changed significantly just since I started grad school ten years ago.Literary criticism is a constantly evolving topic as is Continental Philosophy. Unless you stay "in the game", those fields can pass you by pretty quickly, too.
I shared your lack of motivation regarding high school, because I knew (as I'm sure you did) that you could show up on ACT day, do well, and get a fair amount of scholarship money. I think my class rank was like 48 out of 175 or something like that. I copied almost all of my homework and didn't study for a single test, ever. [Reply]
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
There actually is an expiration date. Once you've been out of the workforce for twenty years, that degree is going to be viewed entirely differently than if you are straight out of school. Much of what they will have learned will be obsolete.
Imagine if you got a degree in Computer Science in 1994, left the workforce in 1995 after you got pregnant, had two kids, and just sent the second one off to college.
Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins:
You'd be surprised. The field of Gender Studies has changed significantly just since I started grad school ten years ago.Literary criticism is a constantly evolving topic as is Continental Philosophy. Unless you stay "in the game", those fields can pass you by pretty quickly, too.
I shared your lack of motivation regarding high school, because I knew (as I'm sure you did) that you could show up on ACT day, do well, and get a fair amount of scholarship money. I think my class rank was like 48 out of 175 or something like that. I copied almost all of my homework and didn't study for a single test, ever.
Let me put it this way: I don't recall ever doing any home work in high school. And I completed my ACT by answering A, B, C, D repeatedly. Maybe there was an E too, but I don't recall. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Donger:
Let me put it this way: I don't recall ever doing any home work in high school. And I completed my ACT by answering A, B, C, D repeatedly. Maybe there was an E too, but I don't recall.
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
I have to disagree.
It's been a while since I've been in the corporate world but even 10 or so years ago, we weighted people's long term goals. If someone couldn't quickly and adequately answer the "Where do you see yourself in five years", that person was no longer considered.
If I'm hiring someone, training them, offering a competitive salary and benefits, I want to know that it isn't wasted time, money and effort.
Clearly that's how it works from the employer's side, it's sound business practice (though I never asked the canned "where do you see yourself" question :-))
That wasn't my point though nor was it Jenkins'. [Reply]
