Screw The Naysayers Podcast

Rutledge Long is an education entrepreneur and independent school consultant in Nashville, TN. A former AP Government and AP English teacher at a college preparatory boarding school, he understands the grind of SATs and APs. He founded Parachute Bridge so that high achieving students will decompress from the grind, rediscover their love of learning and build the skills, dispositions, and competencies that ensure their smooth transition into college and adult life. Parachute Bridge is a Non-Profit.    In Part two of this feature interview Rutledge: States that the future of jobs is in areas like artificial reality, virtual reality, software engineering, and coding Calls out Colleges who are graduating students into a world that is tech and digital, who are helplessly unprepared for the skills that are needed in today’s workplace. Explains why more and more students are going straight from High School into the workforce Tells us that most College Career Centres are not designed to help students explo