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George Hayes, 11 years ago
My father was in the Air Force the first 13 years of my life was mostly spent overseas in Germany, Italy and England. When I came to the states I put my head down on my desk and went to sleep till I left high school. I was in one of the better schools in this nation at the time. We even beta tested the IBM PC AT and XT for IBM. This entire countries education system for the most part is behind other developed nations.
What is sad is it has only gone down hill since then. I seen it get worse when my sister 15 years younger than me went through school and I am seeing the poor excuse for what we call education in Texas and I live in Sugar Land Texas one of the best rated areas.
We aren’t helping any children by having this retarded education system at all. These children are not entering a local work force as we did. They are entering an economy were jobs are being competed for globally. I seen the amount of people hired by companies like TI and others. Why hire Americans when you can get better educated people in other places. Couple that with this nations recent law changes like Obamacare and the future looks real poor for those wanting to work here.
The best thing that could be done for this education system is to start moving the curriculum requirement. Every year for the next 3 years take what is required 2 grade levels above and make that what is this years requirement. That way in 3 years well be at the same level as other developed nations we are on average 5 years behind!
George Hayes, 11 years ago
A lot of companies in have for a long time relied on the college degree system. Its a miserable failure to say the least. 75% of college graduates don’t work in the field of study they went to school for. A large part of them make no more money than those who don’t have a degree. Most people out of college take months to years to get trained to actually do the jobs they are hired to do even in their field of study.
A lot of companies are now pulling away from the strict degree requirement they are finally figuring out that a degree does not mean a person knows how to do the work. This is especially true in technical fields.
I went into the Navy at 21 trained as a Reactor operator through the Naval Nuclear Power Program. After the navy I went to work for DOD/DLA there I worked on everything under the sun. electrical/electronics programming plcs and computers developing equipment installs …. you name it. I left there and went to TI equipment engineering. I had the shortest time and highest score on the engineer test when they hired me.
I taught myself programming at 15 and have learned computer science mostly on my own its 20 times faster than college course ever have been.
I do tutorials on game programming, web development, cryptography… grhmedia.com and I am building conservativespace.comYet, when I couldn’t teach in a Texas school. They would rather hire someone with a degree who doesn’t actually know how something works or has never actually done the work. I recently seen were a school let a child work on fusion. However, the first thing I noticed is the radiation safety was 100% inadequate for the work being done.
I’d rather have teachers who actually know how to do something than just read up on it. I would rather have teachers who are willing to do what is actually necessary to protect the students like my son.
George Hayes, 11 years ago
Funny, I went through Naval Nuclear Power School trained as a Reactor Operator, Worked in Electrical /Electronics for 2 decades along with Equipment engineering and computer science and information systems. My faith never once got me confused in science.
Last I checked we still haven’t figured out were the big bang came from. There is always going to be unanswered questions in science. I’ve never let faith stop me from searching for answers. In fact its probably been my faith that is the greatest driver of why I look.
I think you give far to little credit to Texas Children on their ability to discern the difference. Honestly, its pretty insulting.
