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IT Outsourcing Need Not Threaten Our Future
Xeo writes "The topic of the moment in a lot of people's minds is the outsourcing overseas of 'white collar' jobs. While many people are perhaps rightfully worried about this, there's an editorial on the subject that tends towards the other direction. It makes some very interesting points on the whole idea of outsourcing and what it means for the US at least."
But the electric and food companies need money to provide their services, reward and fun don't mean a damn thing to them.
"Low pay, long hours"
LOL. The average teacher in the UK earns not much less than I do, is far less useful, and probably works far fewer hours, even including work outside school time.
"Vouchers are stupid and don't solve any problems."
Of course they do. They allow parents to remove kids from bad schools and send them to good schools. How can that not be a solution to those parents' problems?
""Performance" based teaching is totally moronic."
Why should teachers who can't teach continue to be paid the same amount as teachers who can? Why should they even be employed? What's so special about teaching that the same kind of performance-based pay that applies to most other jobs shouldn't be applied to them?
"Give teachers the money the deserve,"
$5 an hour?
"fund classrooms and education properly,"
But we've been doing that forever. Every year the teachers whine that they don't have enough money and that's why they're crap, so we give them more money and the schools become even more crap. The solution is to give them less money and make them work for it.
"all those countries that totally kick our ass when it comes to the education of thier children don't do it with privatized voucher systems."
And how many countries, exactly, have such systems to compare against?