Natasha Warner on Nostr: I'm a university faculty member in Linguistics, and I just got an email from a high ...
I'm a university faculty member in Linguistics, and I just got an email from a high school senior who wants to come shadow a linguist for 20 hours before Oct. 15 for a school-required project. We've actually done this before with this school, and I'm delighted by high school students who want to learn about linguistics. However, the students apparently aren't allowed to miss regular class time in order to do their shadowing project. So they're only free to do 20 hours of profession shadowing on weekends or after 4 PM weekdays. How does the school think this will work? If you want to shadow a nurse or a grocery store evening manager, maybe this works. But what if the students want to become K-12 teachers? It also doesn't work for academic jobs--while we do plenty of work at night and on the weekends, watching someone answer email for 20 hours would be boring, not to mention that they're answering email from home. I don't get how the school thinks this would work. Anyone else have experience with high schoolers shadowing jobs? (The previous time we did this, we happened to be running a weekend conference, and took the student along to that. Otherwise, they have to have a day off school while we're in session.) #AcademicChatter
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