Posted on 09/28/2006 12:40:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Pretty cool!
"Each undergoes 60 hours of training, including lessons on how to speak in a U.S. accent and how to decipher American slang."
I'd pay to here a young Indian woman with a Hindu/South Alabama accent :)
Translation: We don't care how bad the kids are doing, just shut up and hand us the money.
just teaching the children that American's won't teach
Nachhilfe ping
There's juuuuust ONE CATCH:
It's CHANGING HANDS...!
I'm sure they are. Hopefully they can be distracted by that battle long enough for many school districts and their voters to realize that they can slash their taxes AND deliver better education by outsourcing the ENTIRE job of teaching to companies like this.
Really. How long before one of these Asian companies figures out where the big money is, and starts making school districts offers they can't refuse. A few big ads in the local newspapers in areas where big property tax hikes to fund the public schools are generating widespread voter anger, and the voters will get rid of whoever they need to get rid of in order to effect the change.
Oh, the glories of the public sector!
Hey, can we outsource the War on Poverty to.....Poverty MERCS...?
Uh oh
next thing you know they'll be offering it thru Wal-Mart
:-)
They'll have learning-centers with Starbucks amenities in Wal-Mart, with satellite-hookup to Bangalore, and Carl Rove will be the cackling door greeter...!
"Oh, dear me, my slurpee is leaking...! Did you want to AXE me a question...?!"
WalMart!!!! Living wage!
This is an inevitable development in the transformation of education in the digital age.
This will do to public schools what the Internet did to Dan Rather and the NYTimes.
Our current 20th century industrial age progressive model of education delivery is unsustainable, a dinosaur waiting to die.
Whether public education collapses in a crisis, or whether it is able to transform its value proposition in the education marketplace, will depend how willing our government is to encourage the kind of privatization, flexibility and innovation that this article describes.
Of course, the entrenched public education bureaucracy, including the unions and the Democrat Party, will do everything it can to frustrate this inevitable transformation.
So I fear that the public education system will soon face its own General Motors moment. The choices that will be forced by the consumer market and advancing in content delivery technology and infrastructure will be very painful for a lot of people.
But one way or another, our current public education delivery model is going to end up on the ash heap of history. I'm predicting that this crisis will come withing five years.
Naturally.
Each undergoes 60 hours of training, including lessons on how to speak in a U.S. accent and how to decipher American slang.
Why can't they do that for tech support?
ping
Ridiculous. The Educator's unionists sound dumber and dumber every time they speak.
There's a lot more money in tutoring.
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