<p>nightingale have you shown the numbers to your D ? I work in IT and am mystified when I talk to students who seem unaffected by money. They are really paying rather ridiculous salaries for STEM jobs today and most HS students don’t care. </p>
<p>The ones who seem to care are the single parents, first generation immigrants, or others who know the sting of poverty. Are we too well off to teach this to our kids ? There are only a few degrees of separation between what an athletic trainer does and what a PT in sports medicine does, but there salaries are in different worlds.</p>