My final career from 2003 to 2021 was with the tech industry and it is true that there are a lot of H-1B visas out there. And there is a huge cultural difference. College education is cheaper and easier to obtain in India for SOME people and it is high quality education. To get into an Indian University you have to pass a series of quali…
My final career from 2003 to 2021 was with the tech industry and it is true that there are a lot of H-1B visas out there. And there is a huge cultural difference. College education is cheaper and easier to obtain in India for SOME people and it is high quality education. To get into an Indian University you have to pass a series of qualifying tests and they aren't easy - I'd put them at the level of GRE (Graduate Record Exam) or LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) both of which I took and passed. For Indian students the SAT would e a piece of cake.
Our problem here is we leave public school education (K-12) to the mercy of the States of which more than view education as the lowest level on have-to-do list. As I've said so often, if you're born and raised in Massachusetts you've got the sun on your shoulders, if you're born and raised in West Virginia, tough patooties.
But it's also true that some companies AND State governments, use their American employees to lesser qualified workers (who also are willing to work for less) then fire those Americans (no matter how many years they have put in) when the new employees are trained.
It's all part and parcel of the shareholder vs stakeholder economic view.
However, we have a worse history; for the past 150+ years too many States have paid for bare minimum education for the masses because ignorance is far easier to control. This has to end if we are to retain our position in a digital world. Every child deserves the best education that child is capable of attaining. No more turning out obedient little automatons.
You probably got to more students than you think, Fay. Things begin to click later on for many. They will remember your words and the sense that you cared about them even if they didn’t seem to be tuned in at the time. That is true in my own experience as a student.
this is exactly what I've complained about here for a few years now.
in NYC, the usual method is to prepare for the "big" tests which, when you see them, are disgracefully easy (AP exams are pretty okay). when the kids don't do especially well, the teachers are blamed (occasionally with good cause). if it keeps up, schools are closed. and good luck to any teacher trying to get a new job who's ever taught in a "failed school."
this approach was one Obama got on board with when he appointed Arnie Duncan his Education Secretary...BIG mistake (a Rahm Emanuel recommendation?).
The thing is, David, teachers are supposed to maintain discipline in a class of 30 to 40 individual students with a few ADHD kids and maybe some functional autistic children with intelligence levels ranging from just shy of average to genius level. All with a State determined curriculum that reaches only the median to lower levels of intelligence.
Children are no more identical than adults. Yet we assume they are little automatons that all learn the same material in the same way at the same time. To be polite HOGWASH.
I do not blame the children or even their clueless parents. I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the stingy State legislators who either purposely or without a clue, place education at or near the bottom of their to do list.
1 teacher with 30 to 40 students, even if they were equally identical can not teach every child in that class to the best of that child's ability to comprehend and absorb the lesson. But, the computer platform has been available for at least 10 years now to do just that - teach every child in the United States to the best of that child's ability to understand.
It will be expensive in the beginning to set up, but the cost can be amortized over several years AND in the end we would have a nation of people capable of independent thought, job ready, and capable of thinking.
My final career from 2003 to 2021 was with the tech industry and it is true that there are a lot of H-1B visas out there. And there is a huge cultural difference. College education is cheaper and easier to obtain in India for SOME people and it is high quality education. To get into an Indian University you have to pass a series of qualifying tests and they aren't easy - I'd put them at the level of GRE (Graduate Record Exam) or LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) both of which I took and passed. For Indian students the SAT would e a piece of cake.
Our problem here is we leave public school education (K-12) to the mercy of the States of which more than view education as the lowest level on have-to-do list. As I've said so often, if you're born and raised in Massachusetts you've got the sun on your shoulders, if you're born and raised in West Virginia, tough patooties.
But it's also true that some companies AND State governments, use their American employees to lesser qualified workers (who also are willing to work for less) then fire those Americans (no matter how many years they have put in) when the new employees are trained.
It's all part and parcel of the shareholder vs stakeholder economic view.
However, we have a worse history; for the past 150+ years too many States have paid for bare minimum education for the masses because ignorance is far easier to control. This has to end if we are to retain our position in a digital world. Every child deserves the best education that child is capable of attaining. No more turning out obedient little automatons.
Turning out obedient little automatons was what I fought against for 12 years.
For me it was 16 years, and I doubt my success - maybe I got to 3 students.
You probably got to more students than you think, Fay. Things begin to click later on for many. They will remember your words and the sense that you cared about them even if they didn’t seem to be tuned in at the time. That is true in my own experience as a student.
Thank you
Sounds like anything any other teacher said, so I accept that as a statistic.
this is exactly what I've complained about here for a few years now.
in NYC, the usual method is to prepare for the "big" tests which, when you see them, are disgracefully easy (AP exams are pretty okay). when the kids don't do especially well, the teachers are blamed (occasionally with good cause). if it keeps up, schools are closed. and good luck to any teacher trying to get a new job who's ever taught in a "failed school."
this approach was one Obama got on board with when he appointed Arnie Duncan his Education Secretary...BIG mistake (a Rahm Emanuel recommendation?).
The thing is, David, teachers are supposed to maintain discipline in a class of 30 to 40 individual students with a few ADHD kids and maybe some functional autistic children with intelligence levels ranging from just shy of average to genius level. All with a State determined curriculum that reaches only the median to lower levels of intelligence.
Children are no more identical than adults. Yet we assume they are little automatons that all learn the same material in the same way at the same time. To be polite HOGWASH.
I do not blame the children or even their clueless parents. I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the stingy State legislators who either purposely or without a clue, place education at or near the bottom of their to do list.
1 teacher with 30 to 40 students, even if they were equally identical can not teach every child in that class to the best of that child's ability to comprehend and absorb the lesson. But, the computer platform has been available for at least 10 years now to do just that - teach every child in the United States to the best of that child's ability to understand.
It will be expensive in the beginning to set up, but the cost can be amortized over several years AND in the end we would have a nation of people capable of independent thought, job ready, and capable of thinking.
If it was bad and comes from the Obama Administration it was a Rahm decision.