I agree, but only if those degrees are earned in a vacuum. If you get a liberal arts degree without having knowledge or experience in another area, you're going to have a bad time. If you get a liberal arts degree and minor in CS, or if you get a liberal arts degree and have experience, you may do better than someone who just went through a CS program. I know a lot of people who have Philosophy or Literature degrees who have done very well for themselves. For me, I was already in the industry when I went to school... so a Philosophy degree it was!

If you show me two people who are equal, except one only has a major in CS and the other has a major in liberal arts and a minor in CS, I will probably hire the liberal arts major, every time.

Sharepoint is good at document versioning. Microsoft Office does not have any versioning support built-in; they removed it as of Office 2003 if I remember correctly. LibreOffice still has versioning support built-in, and you can even see the differences between two versions of a document.

"Lacking a degree means he's not likely to be hard working, he wasn't willing to put in the work to go to college. It means he wasn't willing to take ownership of his own career path. And it means he was either too stupid to get into college, or too stupid to see the benefits of it."

As someone who has filled a multitude of IT roles in the past 17 years, and who has been involved in hiring and firing, I'm going to say that you're awfully shortsighted.

There are a lot of people of college age who simply can't go to college because of circumstances. Take me for example... in my late teens and early 20's, I spent most of my time raising my kid brother and otherwise helping the family, because my parents were basically absent. I did not have the choice to go to college. I was not too lazy to go to college, nor was I lacking the desire to take ownership or the intellect required to see the benefits of, and get into, college. I absolutely took ownership of my career path, which meant using the knowledge I had gained since I was 8 years old to get my first job programming C++ (and moving on from there). So in short, basing your estimate of someone's impetus to work hard on the fact they don't have a degree is a mistake.

Eventually I went on to get a BA in Philosophy in my late 20's. I figured I was already established in my career, so it was a good idea to get the degree I *wanted* rather than the one that would make me money. But I took many computer science classes as well- not quite enough to equal a minor, but more than enough to give me a solid footing in theory. My Philosophy degree has been *vastly* more useful, in practical ways, than a CS degree would have been to me.

Do you know how many people I know who were CS majors, write very badly formed code? A lot of them. Do you know how many people I know, who do an excellent job in IT, who have liberal arts degrees? Probably about the same number of CS majors who write badly formed code.

I've been writing computer programs since I was 8. I did not need a degree to get into the IT industry. Because I was already established on a career path, when I did go to school, I did something I *wanted* to do versus something that people think I *should* have done. In my case it was a BA in Philosophy.

Oh waaaaaaaah, cry me a river. Call the waaaaaaambulance. At least your friend still has her son... the assholery perpetrated by BCH and DCF is far greater than that perpetrated by Anonymous, by several orders of magnitude.

"The true test will be to see if she gets better in 5 years, or if they develop better tests for Mitochondrial syndrome."

The problem is that she's likely to die within months due to her actual physical condition.

I'm curious where you read that Tufts didn't do tests and Boston Children's did do the tests. All of the evidence I've seen is that this whole mess is based upon the uninformed opinion of a junior doctor 7 months out of med school. They didn't do any tests - they simply declared that she was a victim of medical child abuse and took her away from her parents.

It's very telling that the Pelletiers have not been charged with anything... furthermore, the Connecticut DCF investigated their home and family and found everything to be in excellent condition. If the "medical child abuse" claims had any actual merit, why haven't the parents been charged with anything after 14 months?

I understand your view, given your background. And yeah, in normal circumstances, the kids will survive. But this is not a normal circumstance.

Given that her physical condition is much, much worse now than it was when these shenanigans began, and given that DCF is not permitting the treatment for the condition that she actually has, it's highly likely that if she is not released to her parents in the next month or two she will die.