Who's to blame for our kids being 2 years behind?Fox News educates an entire nation for free...they have a pretty good graduation rate.
A high school student in the US is 2 years behind most other countries upon graduation.
Businessmen, Parents, Children and the Nation are being dragged down by ignorance.
Education is expensive...
I was about to go to Brooklyn Tech but I wound up going to FEGS instead to learn my trade back in the late 70's, FEGS was a trade school ... Nothing like Aviation HS I was always fixing things up, those days are gone where trade schools were king you learned how to fix cars (Automotive HS) fix planes (Aviation, fly them too) didn't Barbara Striesand go to Canarsie? And the girls went to Central Commercial for Nursing.
All my buds who went to tech schools are still doing great. I think they have gotten a lot of satisfaction out of their trade careers. Ironically many of those tradespeople enjoyed more lucrative career paths than our liberal arts educated peers. Those vocational types of opportunities and the way of life they provide are very rare now. I'm not a luddite I just think that, back in the day, for anyone who showed initiative there was a respectable and financially viable career path available. Today's opportunities are far less diverse.
Yes I agree, there are no trade schools around its a shame. Very few people I know went to college it was all trade school and made great money, I sure did.
Despite us probably not having the same political views I would like to take a second to tell you how much I appreciate a coherent answer and the opportunity to discuss it like adults...I don't see that too often on RIU....
So your point was nothing is a guarantee?.....k...
Despite us probably not having the same political views I would like to take a second to tell you how much I appreciate a coherent answer and the opportunity to discuss it like adults...I don't see that too often on RIU....
And in that spirit I went and spent a few minutes with my Milwaukee's in the garage....I'll just say that my copper hammers have never been so shiny.
I am interested in your opinion....personally I'm a fan of holding big corporations accountable for overseas tax dodges....the feasibility and actual impact of that?...eeehhh....
If we're talking ideals not reality I believe (in my dreams) that a cap on income would solve most issues. You could even make it obscene....something like, "no one may earn more than 25 million dollars a year after taxes"....it wouldn't impact even the wealthiest peoples lifestyle (in any real way). Remove (Or at least stifle) greed and burning the world to the ground for its sake alone might slow down a bit......
A pipe dream I know....a shiny, shiny, well stroked..."ahem"...uuum i mean polished pipe dream
When I say social services I mostly mean welfare...food stamps...health care. etc, etc.........could you elaborate on what you mean specifically when you say "threat" please? Just so I have context.
So your point was nothing is a guarantee?.....k...
So you're saying you don't think the unemployment rate is any worse for non-graduates? ...eehhh
Its not really about if YOU personally found school to be a challenge....if it was that easy for you that's great! I don't care if you had it paid for by your parents or you worked 6 jobs to get through it, if it was easy that's fantastic. But literally NO ONE else is you. So maybe we could allow others the room to live by the variables of their lives and not yours.
I dont know your life's hardships and wouldn't expect you to know mine. But we all have them and they are as different as we are. Regardless of whether its hard academically, financially or other, school IS a monumental hurdle for some people.
But more importantly I don't care what side of politics you fall on I believe we ALL can agree that without first rate education our country (and world) will wither and die. Allowing our education institutes to prioritize income before education is madness. The less available a first rate education is to all Americans the greater the chances we will deny ourselves prosperous future generations...
The price and availability of a higher education is unacceptable. The lack of emphasis on education is unacceptable.
I did like what I saw Germany doing with their universities of recent..
Who would ever go into business if by doing so you risk all your personal assets to confiscation??
I taught Digital Electronics at a tech school for two years back in the mid-90's. A lot of cats made pretty good money right out of the gate, and some ended up making six figures if they were willing to work the overtime.
I'm telling you trade schools are making more sense than College, unless it's for a specialized field (medicine, law etc...).
No, not you but Mr or Mrs. McDonald, as it should be.
That is what I'm talking about. That is fucking nice! I wish that more kids (especially African American kids) would consider going this route.
I do. 15 miles to a grocery store and anyone with a car on welfare don't have a reliable car and damn sure not enough money to pay for gas for 2 weeks just to collect a damn paycheck it's a 45 minute drive to a place with a good amount of jobs.
If a person is working as a register clerk at McDonald's and Uncle Buck comes in and lays down a barrage of human scat on the bathroom floor and several people become ill...
I agree completely, that would be ideal.... I also understand the legal loopholes a system like that would create...we kinda had one before we added layer upon layer of bureaucracy to try and close up those loop holes (which of course leads to other issues)...which is why accountability falls on the person whom made the choice to take on those responsibilities when they made the choice to own that type of business.
Absolutely. I view anarchy as the absence of a governing body in favor of every man living by his own integrity (or lack thereof). I know the traditional definition mostly conveys that as being a chaotic "free for all". But I more often hear the term used to describe some sort of ideal utopian self governing community, capable of self sustaining without all the bureaucratic hypocrisy or red tape of a true government.
