Another Endorsement For Public Education PDF Print E-mail
Written by The Big Stink   
Friday, 28 March 2008 11:31

So, you want to force American businesses to cease and desist from shipping jobs overseas?  You need to think it through.  Our problem, as a nation, isn’t that we don’t have the engineering and R&D capacity to compete in the world.  Americans, as a rule, can out-engineer any other country on the planet. 

But, now that you have conceived of a product, how do you bring it to market competitively?

According to Randall Stephenson, the CEO of AT&T America lacks the fundamental smarts to produce and manufacture.  Stephenson said he is especially distressed that in some U.S. communities and among certain groups, the high school dropout rate is as high as 50 percent.

 

"If I had a business that half the product we turned out was defective or you couldn't put into the marketplace, I would shut that business down," he said.


A few years back the Twin West Chamber of Commerce in our part of town sent the governor a letter stating that local businesses were dismayed that the workers they were getting out of the public school system were sorely lacking and virtually unemployable because they could neither read, write nor think critically.

So, precisely when, during this legislative session will tuition tax credits or vouchers be debated?

Cross-posted at Freedom Dogs. Comments welcome.