[Tfug] Cyber War -oh noes

[Tim Ottinger]

Because we are consumers of people, and there is more money in brokering already-skilled people than prodicing skilled people. 

I find that some schools are consumers of already-good-students rather than producers of them. Appparently if you aren't  a born test-taker, you've got small chance of making it. A high school teacher told me that only the honor role students are worth her time.

 As a result perfectly good, bright people are left and lost and inexpensive replacements are shipped in.

Capitalist consumerism is harsh when your merchandise is encumbered with a pesky soul.  

  

 

-----Original Message-----
From: keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>
Sent: January 07, 2009 6:54 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Cyber War -oh noes

Failing the brightest was one of my arguments
against H1B Visas a while back.

Why does bill gates import labor.  Why has he not used his wealth
and influence to identify the brightest and put them in an
environment where they can be challenged beyond anything anyone
of us would have ever expected.

We are failing ourselves!

Why do we fail to identify, mentor, and push, while providing for
these people?
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Keith Smith




--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net> wrote:
From: Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Cyber War -oh noes
To: tfug at tfug.org
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 5:33 PM

On Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 03:38:52PM -0800, Bexley Hall wrote:
> How many folks can't "count change"?  Or, form a
"correct"
> sentence?  (or, write wItHoUt *abusing* punctuation!!  :> )
>
> How many *question* what they are "told"?  How many know
> how to find their own "answer"?  :-/
>
> <shrug>  Dunno.  Perhaps it is attributable to people having
> "less time" (?  then, where did all that time *go*?).

I think there are many possible causes, and likely more than one
actual cause, for what you are describing. One might be that
those who were once uneducated now have a middle or high school
education and are able to contribute more to society. But they
are still unable to perform at the level you expect.

You might have
 noticed that I listed a high school education
above. That is because at the same time we are "not leaving any
child behind" we are failing t

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