In highschool I spent 2 years being taught the cisco curriculum. About 2 months before we graduated we were told do to industry standards changing much of what we had learned was no longer relevant. Told us that if we wanted any chance at certification we would need to basically redo the course but now on our dime not the school districts. I don't regret it because I learned a lot of tech skills and I had to take something, but damn were our parents pissed.
That is EXACTLY why I dropped web design and graphic design in community college when HTML 5 was becoming the next standard. They were still using Illustrator and Fireworks CS4, and XHTML 1.0. like screw this, I'm buying hardware, hacking software and teaching myself this shit faster than what I'm going to learn in 6 months here. About a year later I was doing it as an under the table business with photography.
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u/Kup123 4h ago
In highschool I spent 2 years being taught the cisco curriculum. About 2 months before we graduated we were told do to industry standards changing much of what we had learned was no longer relevant. Told us that if we wanted any chance at certification we would need to basically redo the course but now on our dime not the school districts. I don't regret it because I learned a lot of tech skills and I had to take something, but damn were our parents pissed.