When I was completing my master’s in 2010, at home we were watching Battlestar Galactica on DVD. We viewed the episode “Dirty Hands.” (Wikipedia here. IMDB here. Battlestar Wikiclone here.). Before class started, I mentioned it to the professor, that in a society that was breaking down, children were inheriting the work of their parents. His daughter and I had been in the same freshman class and now she was completing her doctorate. Just to note: one summer, I carried 24 credits, 12 each at two different schools, two classes in each of two summer mini-semesters. But I could not work fast enough. She was going to inherit her job before I could earn mine. The professor said that it was common in universities now.
From the National Radio Astronomy Observatory:
Nine Children of NRAO Staff Among Recipients of 2021 AUI Scholarship
AUI [Associated Universities, Inc.] has selected the recipients of its 2021 AUI Scholarship, who each will be awarded a $3,500 renewable scholarship ($14,000 over four years to each scholar) to support their academic careers. Fourteen outstanding high school seniors were selected based on their academic achievement, community involvement, and leadership skills.
Funded by AUI, the scholarship program recognizes the achievements of the children of full and part-time employees of AUI and its affiliated centers, and assists them with the ongoing costs of collegiate education. Recipients of this year’s award come from across AUI’s affiliated centers, including the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Green Bank Observatory (GBO), and AUI.
The AUI Scholarship program is conducted by International Scholarship and Tuition Services, Inc.
https://public.nrao.edu/news/children-of-nrao-staff-among-recipients-of-2021-aui-scholarship/
Back in 1967, in a high school history class, I learned that at the turn of the century then, one easy generalization about America was “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” Working class parents give their children all the advantages they can. The children become professionals, teachers, doctors, railroad executives, or steamship entrepreneurs. Then outcomes being what they are, the children might not maintain that status as they lack the attributes that made their parents and grandparents successful. Our teacher warned us that this was eroding, that America was developing a ruling class similar to Europe’s and England’s in particular.
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