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To: Road Walker who wrote (364631)	12/28/2007 2:55:13 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586434

But workers with less formal education either see their jobs shipped overseas or find their wages driven down by the ripple effect as other workers with similar qualifications crowd into their industries and look for employment to replace the jobs they lost to foreign competition. And lower prices at Wal-Mart aren’t sufficient compensation. There in lies the problem. The US is a wealthy country. Yet, it leaves one's education almost entirely to the kid going to school. I knew I was going to college because my friends were going and not because I had a real sense of how important it was to my job future. The US needs to better organize its educational system....maybe more in line with that of a Germany where early on you begin to take tests that determine your apptitude. Once its determined where your skills lie, then you are pushed into that direction academically. Here in the US we give kids little direction. You are either college bound or not. I think only 25% of high school kids go on to a 4 year institution and of that amount roughly only half graduate. What about the people who don't fit those parameters? The ones who don't end up graduating. They are left to fend for themselves. Do they know to pick jobs that have potential? Are they better with their hands then their mind? When you are 18, you have very little of a world view and its very hard to know what's the best approach to take with your education to optimize your job potential. That's where I believe the American educational system falls most short.