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They need job skills and few high schools teach them. One of the high schools I went to had a small program with the community college next door for people to l

• flukus 10y ago
  My high school was similar but that's all gone now. But this was 15 years ago and not finishing high school was still common. In fact I didn't and later learned programming through a trade school. I'm pretty sure there are next to no opportunities for anyone following my path today though.
• serge2k 10y ago
  They have job skills, the jobs disappeared. It's not their fault. If outsourcing suddenly produced high quality issue free software for cheap tomorrow then we'd all be just as screwed despite having such great skills.
  • dx034 10y ago
    Most job losses were due to automation, not necessarily outsourcing. And if they have job skills for jobs that don't exist anymore it's as if they don't have job skills at all. But it's certainly not their fault, it's the education system that has to teach job skills, you can't learn that by yourself.
    • ubertaco 10y ago
      > if they have job skills for jobs that don't exist anymore it's as if they don't have job skills at all. Exactly this. At the risk of reductio ad absurdum, would anyone consider the ability to write (not compositional writing, just literally the ability to put a pen down on paper and form letters) a "marketable job skill" any more? Not likely, since that skill can be replaced by a $60 printer what doesn't need a salary.
  • cheriot 10y ago
    What are those skills? My high schools taught regular academic subjects and electives. What job does that qualify a person to do? They can't fix a car, drive a big truck, or operate specialized machinery. Yes, the unskilled jobs moved. That's why high schools need to teach actual skills now.