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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (129392)	1/31/2017 9:21:23 AM
From: Horgad	1 Recommendation Recommended By Sdgla Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218660

I want a training system reinstated as you stated:O) Yes if we cut H1Bs (and/or the US becomes an undesirable place to immigrate to) and we don't overhaul the US education system, given the pace that technology is moving, we will fall behind the tech curve. As it stands now we are still managing to import/steal top talent from the rest of the world and produce some of our own. Also a good chunk of the top talent in the US is coming from individuals who are self taught exactly because most of our education system is failing to keep up with tech. That right there is a limiting factoring on the number of top talent that can come out of the US because not everybody is willing to take the risk of forgoing a formal education to self study or has the the gumption/time to do both at the same time. Tech leaders in my city are exploring ways to circumvent/supplement the failing education system here to try and produce more local tech talent. This includes opening a coding school (not cheap) that teaches the skills that are most in demand here. Top students are instantly recognized and snatched up by the leaders of the same companies that founded the school. And I would guess the same/similar is happening across the country in other tech centers. It is kind of a band-aid fix for sure, but it is something. I would rather see the local tech leaders put more effort into partnering with elementary schools, HSs, and local universities and try and drive curriculum changes that way, but that is a much more difficult path to take. Also, kids and parents need to spend much more time researching Universities programs/degrees and start aggressively shunning the ones that don't produce easily hirable graduates. Right now these schools are raking it in and may times providing few marketable skills in return. P.S. I have a vested interest in the subject as do my children who are ramping up now to enter the tech industry and I am doing my best to encourage them to take more unconventional/creative approaches to learning and not to rely on traditional schools. Otherwise yes they risk ending up with almost "useless" tech or other STEM degrees that didn't do enough to give them currently in demand skills and instead gave them skills that were in demand 8 years ago.