Business wants immigration reform. Why? Because they can't find enough workers

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Two possibilities with your out of work programmers: They program in Cobol or some other out of date language. Or they have skipped around from company to company. And the last company has let them go.

Tell them to take a few classes in a language that is actually used. And they will get a job. Try SQL, Ruby on Rails or C sharp.

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“Has our educational system adapted to the jobs market other than college? I don’t get it then.”

Our education system is a fraud. It is a waste of time for our children. If you have children, take over the math education. Buy IXL.com and make your child move through this program at about 150% of the rate your school is teaching. Most kids can handle this (I agree some can’t). You would like to finish calculus before high school starts. Then put your child in physics and computer courses. By junior year your child should start taking two math APs, a physics AP, and a computer science AP. Your child will write his own ticket getting into college. And frankly, he/she will be employable without going to college. Groupon will pay your child not to go to college and work for them.

[kearnyirish2]

A lot of the same problems here in NJ, especially with match, science, and languages. The tenure is forced on us; nobody pretends that we have good teachers (they only exert themselves UNTIL tenured, then they kick back for a forty-year ride on the gravy train - making A LOT OF MONEY). They get fake additional degrees from diploma mills to drive up their pay (even if the degree is completely unrelated to what they).

The young ones in particular are horrible, since they themselves are products of a broken system. Most of my children’s learning is outside of school; in the school system if you aren’t in honors classes you’ve basically been written off..