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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (21283)	6/23/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 769667

<<A generation of graduates with diplomas and no skills is "risky".>> The projections are as high as 40% of the workers entering the high tech industries of the USA over the next five years will have to be imported from other countries. I have talked to a lot of the 20 something kids and this does not concern them. I have talked to their employers too. The question I ask is how do you think we are preparing the kids for the world of work. Typical answer: "You see that young man over there. He arrives 20 minutes late everyday. He pulls into the parking lot with his rattling dirty and smoking, unmaintained, beast of a car. When he puts the dressing on the burgers, he gets it wrong about half the time and if I say anything, he wants to know what my problem is." Then the employer asks me what we do in the schools to prepare these kids? For example: When they arrive to class late is there a real consequence that corrects that behavior or do you just bubble in a "T" on the sheet that gets scanned by the computer? When he produces work that is less than satisfactory do you require him to get it right or do you mark a "C-" and pass him on to the next course? My answer was that they are able to take a job training course during high school to help them get into the job market. He reminds me; his burger flipping employee came from one of those programs.