A person going by the name Attila said:
= . There is a solution. Trade Schools, The problem was simple: we have only the now retiring toolmakers who make it all possible. engineering graduates will not observe the manufacturing floors since it is above their dignity to roll of their sleeves.
I knew too many engineering students to believe this. I knew one (Civil Engineering) who had been a Paramedic, he wanted grease and dirt on his hands, it may be harder to wash off, but much easier to sleep off.
if engineers were required to serve internships in the shops, as doctors are required to intern in a hospital (and the really good ones, the top of the class, choose what I call meat-wagon wards (large city ER and trauma units), the U.S. would be a far healthier and competitive environment.
No argument there.
I know, why the meat wagon wards with their pressure and unreasonable hours? experience, anything and everything comes through those doors every night, and it goes off the scale on the weekends...
Hell, that desciribes the ER I used to work in, and it was in a college town. (Yes, I do have a sorted job history. Everything from a strip joint dj. to working as a designer for a Big 7 Accounting firm).
= .It would also seem to = .follow that if parents were spending their own money (or = .perceived it as their own money) that they would take a greater = .interest in their childrens education. = . ...if they were smart enough to start about age 3. the
Better late than never.
themselves after dark. (I do admit that one good scream would have an extremely well-armed about to be posse out the door in 15 seconds... --I doubt there would be prisoners!)
In my neighborhood, screams are so common (mostly from kids playing, and yes, I do check as often as I can) that most people don't bother to check. Very different worlds. My wife and I are probably the only ones who _don't_ watch TV. We have 2, plus 5 computers, and 5 or 6 book shelves. The TV's were free, so were 2 of the computers.
a very unusual situation --but I live in rural southern utah where the regional middle school of 1200 can support 4 bands, the freshman. and, where an average ward (100-150 families) will have at least a dozen Eagle scouts. proves your point, I guess...
Prove? I don't know, but it is some pretty solid evidense. Communism at it's finest. A community of people who work together and take care of each other voluntarily for the common good. <hee hee> Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com