If your looking for a reason our country has to look outside its boarders for hi tech computer jobs, look at the condition of schools in our country. I am a high school teacher and I see the lack of technology and use of in our schools everyday. Washington brags about having an internet connection in every classroom, but what good does it do if the teachers do not know how to use the? Most second grade students know more about computers and the internet than teachers at all levels. How does our country expect to fill the hundreds of thousands of hi tech compter jobs when the people tasked with educating our youth know less than the people they are teaching.
If we want to fill the holes we have in this industry, we must begin with educating our educators, making them computer literate, and teaching them how to use technology in their classrooms. I encourage every student I have to go to college and study computer science or something computer related. I show them what I make and then I show them what my buddies from school are making. Guys that had literally half my gpa are making three times what I am!
Until we can fill these need ourselves we are forced to turn to other countries to make up for the shortcomings in our educational system.
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If your looking for a reason our country has to look outside its boarders for hi tech computer jobs, look at the condition of schools in our country. I am a high school teacher and I see the lack of technology and use of in our schools everyday. Washington brags about having an internet connection in every classroom, but what good does it do if the teachers do not know how to use the? Most second grade students know more about computers and the internet than teachers at all levels. How does our country expect to fill the hundreds of thousands of hi tech compter jobs when the people tasked with educating our youth know less than the people they are teaching. If we want to fill the holes we have in this industry, we must begin with educating our educators, making them computer literate, and teaching them how to use technology in their classrooms. I encourage every student I have to go to college and study computer science or something computer related. I show them what I make and then I show them what my buddies from school are making. Guys that had literally half my gpa are making three times what I am! Until we can fill these need ourselves we are forced to turn to other countries to make up for the shortcomings in our educational system.