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4th law of robotics

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14. We've let our highschools fall behind and to supplement that

Reply to customerserviceguy (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 05:53 PM

Apr 2012

are pushing more kids to go to college to learn what they should already know.

Really we need to revamp our primary schools and then take a hard look at pushing more kids in to technical colleges, hands on job training, or more useful 4 year degrees.

It's not right that we let students wrack up 200k in debt for a degree that even in a good economy wouldn't really improve their marketability.

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53% of Recent College Grads Are Jobless or Underemployed—How? [View all] xchrom Apr 2012 OP

My daughter graduated 2 years ago and is working at Wal-Mart liberal N proud Apr 2012 #1

What field of study was that? n/t customerserviceguy Apr 2012 #3

BS in Annimation liberal N proud Apr 2012 #8

Ok, I've known a couple of young people in the same boat customerserviceguy Apr 2012 #11

Thinking back. My first job out of college was clerical and did not require a college JDPriestly Apr 2012 #4

my kids... go figure! handmade34 Apr 2012 #5

my daughter has graphic arts degree as well Ghost of Tom Joad Apr 2012 #10

Has she considered word processing for a "starter" job? XemaSab Apr 2012 #15

I can't tell if you saw my post or not XemaSab Apr 2012 #16

Maybe a lot of young people customerserviceguy Apr 2012 #2

College is an opportunity to extend adolesence exboyfil Apr 2012 #7

We've let our highschools fall behind and to supplement that 4th law of robotics Apr 2012 #14

they just had this report on Today Show NJCher Apr 2012 #6

They are jobless because CEO's need to hoard more money Marrah_G Apr 2012 #9

How would they have been employed in a good year? treestar Apr 2012 #12

Bad economy plus degrees of marginal value 4th law of robotics Apr 2012 #13

For very small values of two... salvorhardin Apr 2012 #17