Posted on 02/09/2011 6:46:33 PM PST by beaversmom
...The warning lights are blinking on overdrive — America is in trouble. We need a long-term effort to educate, train, and deploy America’s skilled workforce....
I'll thank him to keep his "long-term efforts...." to his damn self.
We are currently producing a documentary and education program, “Industrial Tsunami,"...
Now that's sure to fix it! Nobody knows how to do anything, so let's sit on our asses and watch a documentary! Popcorn anyone? He is to the economy what algore is to the environment. Maybe he'll get an academy award too.
“That can be fixed if the educations system forgets about ‘women’s studies’ and ‘black studies’”
If any good comes from this era, the 20-somethings who are doing post-graduate Xbox studies in M+P’s basement with their degrees in political science will have long, long memories. I will too, because as of now, I am paying to insure them.
In a way, I feel sorry for them, because studies have shown time and again that it is very, very difficult to ever recover from starting on the ladder low or late, and these days, those are just about the only two options.
I think that the “soft” (and I mean soft, as in limp) studies are going to undergo a very hard correction. I predict an abrupt end to college-level courses such as “1970’s Culture Reflected in Situation Comedies”.
I go into a number of aerospace manufacturing facilities in this country where the average age of the machinists is over 60. Yes, it’s that bad.
I betcha my husband can do all you are talking about. All those terms sound familiar to me. He’s a self-taught guy and has an incredible brain for that kind of thing. He’s currently looking too, but we are in CO :(
Gee don’t be so angry.
Well, according to a few on this thread, Ratzenberger is full of it. I have no way of knowing one way or the other. He and Mike Rowe have traveled around the country extensively and both seem to think there is a cause for concern.
You are so right. For the last couple of decades the only thing it seems some school districts want to encourage is College. There are a lot of bright young people who are mechanically inclined and academically declined. Our Schools are sending far too many people to Colleges and university who are bright but not college material and they end up dropping out or in a dead end cubicle job, restless, with no meaningful future. A good tradesman with ambition and hard work can make 6 figures a year in some markets. The state I live in cut back on trades education and it ended up being a deciding factor in some new industry choosing not to move here.
In Sacramento.
I do see help wanted signs for machinists and welders here in central OK.
I took my dog to a training class which was held in a mechanics classroom at the local vo-tech. On the wall in the classroom were multiplication tables, and on the board was 1/4 + 1/4 = 1/2. How can these high school kids learn to be mechanics when they can’t do basic math?
While this is not a schooling thread, the fact that most of what’s taught in high school is so useless is one reason for the problem. Can the homeschooling community address this?
Ping
I can vouch for that. My brother is a self-taught auto mechanic. He worked for shop in Boulder, CO for over 20 years and ended up making over $100K because he was so good and fast at what he did. The shop owner's son took over and let him go because he made too much money. He ended up going way down in pay with a job at a shop fixing Bobcats. He often complained at how lazy his co-workers were. That shop closed because of the economy and now he's on unemployment. That's our brave new world for you.
See that's a problem. How is it that we could learn to do math 30, 40, 50 years ago and now everyone is a dope? What changed about the way they teach math? Do they teach math?
Darn! Can he work from home in CO? ;)
Too often companies have no interest in training people. They want to hire people for the duration of a project and let them go when they no longer need them. Re-hire again when the demand is there again. That's a tough system for people in that field and tougher for those trying to get in.
The article is a scam.
“We need a long-term effort to educate, train, and deploy America’s skilled workforce. We have very little time to get this right.”
They are using the debt crisis and numerous regulations preventing the economy from getting going as a way to justify “investing” in training.
I say we balance the budget and get rid of 90% of the tax code.
In my experience about half of them can not add fractions. In fact this is the single question I used to place students.
I also tutor HS students. At a certain point I came to the conclusion that the schools have given up trying to teach them.
They give them worksheets with no instruction and expect them to answer them. No textbooks, nothing. It is really ridiculous.
“job creation.” starts with Tax relaxation i.e. cut taxes.
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