I have been saying for most of my former career as a public school teacher (14 years) that one of the biggest lies being sold to students in schools today is that EVERYONE needs a college education.
Of course, every time I voiced my opinion, I didn’t get any more popular with fellow teachers and especially administration.
It is that “college education” mentality that brings us the pseudo-problem of “needing” illegals to do the jobs “Americans won’t do”.
The real deal - if Americans won’t do it - it is because they are fat and lazy - and have been brought up and trained that way by the public school masters.
The truth - only a fraction of those currently in schools “need” to go to college.
And considering some former students who “successfully” completed a college degree... It doesn’t necessarily mean all that much. But between schools saying college is a “right”, and prospective employers trying to require a degree to sort mail or run errands... it has cheapened a college education (in every way except cost to students and to the taxpayers).
That isn't the only lie being sold to these students. Teachers and principals LIE to students when then pass them from grade to grade without having mastered the basics.
I often read of “X” percentage of children in a particular grade being “below basic”. Huh? Why are they even labeled as being in that grade? If they are in the 9th grade with 3rd grade reading and math skills then his teachers and principals have LIED to that student and his parents!
No, I don't think big hairy 15 year olds should be in the same classes as 9 year old fourth graders. They should be in classes with other 15 year olds but in no way should they be led to believe that they are nothing more than on the 3rd grade level and their chances of earning a graduation diploma are near hopeless.
>>>>>>It is that “college education” mentality that brings us the pseudo-problem of “needing” illegals to do the jobs “Americans won’t do”.<<<<<<
This is not true.
The fact is that the average wage rate for the unskilled and semi-skilled trades (which are heavily staffed with illegals) has not increased at the same rate as all other compensation rates in America.
To be in line with **any** other American compensation scale or index over the last 30 years, those guys making $12 on the construction site *should* be making $22 to $28 per hour.
So the “jobs Americans won’t do” are really the jobs that have been stolen from Americans for substandard wages ($12 versus $24) by illegal aliens.
They simply underbid American workers, because they could afford to.