Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials Highlight

some of Nguyen’s observations border on the horrific. A Milton high school principal bragged about their “kindergarten-to-career pipeline,” explaining that instead of counting apples, five-year-olds are counting fire trucks. “We need to catch them at that early age,” he says.29 It starts innocuously enough, but by algebra they’re calculating parabolas using the trajectory of an American sniper’s bullet in North Korea.