I am asking if you as parents have been asked by your kids to do something as a school project called the family bio. They do it in their junior year. It is essentially a detailed biography of the life of a grandparent. There are multiple parts and interviews recorded on tape and the completed project ends up being a mini book of 60 pages.
While it is a perfectly valid learning process there are several other aspects of life school does not make any attempt to prepare these kids for the lives they will lead in an increasingly Machiavellian society.
The entire thing strikes me as an endorsement of data mining. Five years ago when my oldest daughter this was not even a concern. My second daughter did the very same project but something happened four years after she was out of high school. An Army recruiter called her on a brand new cell phone number. The recruiter, A, had the number and B, knew what she was taking in college. Yes, every recruiter in my area got blasted and I was reading very nasty email replies for a solid week. They never called again though.
Ever since that incident much attention has been given to all siblings on how best to minimize their digital footprints. I now think this is far more important than reducing their carbon footprints.
In a world of dwindling privacy I can no longer support it when someone asks “tell me about yourself”.
Is the family bio a nationwide phenomena?
