Your skills sound very useful and the fact you are eager to teach them is the attitude we would most be in need of.
Do you think trying to teach everyone basic math, science and reading is a wasted effort? I really think we will want to maintain this.
Do you know what the literacy rates use to look like before public schools? Not good.
I know some people would do a great job at home schooling their kids but I don’t think a lot of us would.
It sounds like I will still be forced to commute to a work, now at a power plant. I was hoping to work out of my new home as a Master Tinkerer and troubleshooter. Hopefully someone more qualified than I would step up to run the power plant and I could do the work I am best suited for and still be very helpful. I would probably have even less time to help with my kids schooling.
I really think we will need to hang on to public school/mass baby sitting, if we want to rescue technologies we will need all hands doing something and kids will probably largely apprentice instead of High School. But I see grammar school still very much needed.
I think the school system should teach elementary- and middle-school kids proper spelling/grammar, a couple of other languages, and the maths and sciences. I second the motion for apprenticeship rather than high school.
Can I get a second vote for Upstate NY? It may not be the Corn Belt, but it’s a good place to grow those sources of ethyl alcohol, apples and grapes. Mmmm, concord grapes.
I think trying to teach anything is a wasted effort. Teaching only happens when an individual who is ready to learn connects with an individual who his willing to share knowledge. One doesn’t need school for that, and I would argue that forced schooling actually impedes the process.
Basic skills in science, math, and reading are learned naturally and with very little fuss in a literacy-rich environment, and I suspect that the SDMB Post-Apocolyptic Commune would be literacy-filthy-rich
I can do that, if I have some helpers. Pigs, deer, bison and rabbits I’ve done. The rest is easily picked up, especially since I’m going to make you all butcher your own cuts after I’ve sided them. Unless a butcher or two signs on, that is.
I’m wondering if the women here volunteering to be surogate mothers relize we have not yet had any doctors step up to say they can do in vitro fertilization. So of course we’ll have to do it “Old School style.”
And Doctors if you’re out there: Please shut up now…
We’ll need a skilled vegetarian to kick in and do this. I am an omnivore, so I’ll eat Meat and Veggies. I hope we have someone that can grow mushrooms.
I figured if I’m going to be stuck at a power plant for long hours out of town, I will at least have several BBQs setup and ready for use. Lots of BBQ meals.
I hope we can raise chickens for Eggs and Chicken.
Isn’t ethical vegetarianism mostly based on the way corporations treat the animals they raise? Would Doper vegetarians be willing to eat meat prepared in humane ways by post-apocalyptic Dopers?
I’ve lived in California. I will pass on the Earthquakes and the remoteness from the rest of the US. From Tenn we have large resources, good weather and access to a large amount of the pre-disaster country. Crossing from Cally back east can be tough. There won’t be an infrastructure of support anymore. What part of California were you thinking of? The Northern section is the better growing region, but I still like the TVA’s drought resistance and Hydropower.
Convince us with some resources that require low management.
(I wish I could find an excuse for the North East to keep close to NYC & DC but I can’t come up with a good enough argument)
