David Marcus
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451 appearances
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard Nov 2020
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Maybe I should take a gap year and let this this horrible COVID nineteen situation settle down.
And I think that's something that parents that I meet with are not talking about and should talk about.
Good.
Well let's talk about that.
I
For years I've been an advocate of gap years and nobody, very few parents want to hear about it.
And my own daughter, who I I thought it would be fascinating for her to travel or work or do something differently after high school a few years ago, I understand that she wanted to sort of keep up with her peers.
She didn't want to take a year off and then hear everybody's graduating or having a great time or whatever and
and do that.
But now I'm finding parents a little bit more amenable to talking about it.
Of course, like everything else in life, gap years have gotten complicated.
Just a year ago.
I talked to some kids about the fact that they could work, they could study, they could take Khan Academy classes for free.
They could be waiters in restaurants.
They could there's all kinds of things that that are incredibly important ways to grow up.
Um a gap year to me, just to I want to make that clear.
Is not
sitting on your parents' couch and and eating Reese's pizzas.
It's not just kind of goofing off and and being on a screen all day playing games.
But
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