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A SURVEY of Seniors distributed by the State Department of Education in Richmond reveals a curious attitude toward this area’s most important “industry” which we hope was entirely unintentional. In any event, we hope that any future surveys do something to correct what could be interpreted as a snobbish bias toward agriculture and working on farms.
In querying the high school seniors on “My future occupation,” a list of jobs is given, apparently by degrees of desirability. At the top of the list is: “Jobs such as executive in a large business, accountant, chemist, engineer, lawyer, physician, college teacher.” All right; such jobs have traditionally been classified at the top of the heap in our society. But then begins descending scale going through such occupations as “proprietor of medium business,” to insurance agent, bank clerk, carpenter, etc. Listed at the very last is this category: “Jobs such as cafeteria worker, dairy worker, farm helper, freight handler, unspecified laborer, street cleaner.”
No wonder so many youngsters wind up feeling reluctant
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