Education in America: A Study in Stupid

"Technology has enabled business to outsource most employment. Technical call centers, tax preparation, journalism, medical consulting, sales, diagnostics, unit purchasing, artwork, computer graphics, architectural design, and photo printing make up just a small fraction of the labors that can all be handled by workers hundreds or thousands of miles away. There are few geographic barriers remaining for employment.

"To date most of the outsourcing of jobs has been in the low skilled or unskilled category. At the same time eight out of ten new jobs becoming available are demanding high skilled workers. As this is taking place, almost half of our present and future work force cannot qualify for the new positions being offered and since the American workforce is unavailable, those jobs are being offered either abroad or to immigrants brought in to fill particular needs.

"We only have ourselves to blame. We have allowed parents to abandon their children, expecting an army of educational union activists to take over parental duties. We have allowed work-place rules and regulations to keep sub-standard teachers on the job long after they should have been banned from every campus. Most of all, we have failed to motivate our children to work."