Peahen wrote:
> "FurPaw" <furrealpawdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:jqadnVAInJ5g5HTanZ2dnUVZ_hisnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Peahen wrote:
>>> "FurPaw" <furrealpawdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>> I do wonder if this avoidance of the mature worker will turn around
as
>>>> more and more baby boomers retire and employers find that they are
>>>> unable to find enough qualified workers to fill those positions.
>>> Seems to me with the recession that we don't know we're in, there's
not
>>> going to be much of a demand for workers, qualified or not.
>> Yeah, there's that... and will we ever get out of this recession?
>>
>> I'm thinking with emphasis on qualified... because the _average_
students
>> graduating from high schools aren't qualified for much; many of them
have
>> to take remedial cl***** when they start college, and I don't know what
>> employers do with/for those who go straight to work.
>>
>> FurPaw
>>
>>
> Yup, I was a tutor when I first got here. I had students who didn't
know
> the components of a sentence, much less a paragraph.
Can't do simple arithmetic without a calculator (and can't
recognize when the answer is several orders of magnitude
wrong). Can't follow simple instructions. Don't understand
how to answer "list three reasons..." questions. Some
never had to write a research paper in HS; some didn't even
have to do themes, afaict.
It's easy to point fingers at the public schools and parents
and government and taxpayers unwilling to pay a decent
salary to teachers, but the ones who will suffer the most
are the kids, and they're the least to blame.
FurPaw
--
"Every gun that is made, every war****p launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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