RE: Are newly implemented tech schools and programs for students headed towards extinction?

DAB — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:27:52 GMT

Hi Cabe,

This post identifies the power of the teachers union.

They fear that any alternative education will jeopardize their jobs and pay, so they want to strangle any form of "learning" with bureaucracy and impediments.

I have given up on seeing any useful progress at that level.

What I propose is that we form Technical Guilds to train the future technologists. We can setup cooperative agreements with the industries that need specific skills and then take potential candidates through a training program that leads to a specific job. We set up the fee structure such that the student pays no up front costs, but then pay off their apprentice costs over time from the money they earn working. It should be easy to set this up at the local level and keep control via specific contracts with the businesses in need of talent.

By keeping everything private, we avoid the government interference and create immediate opportunity for all concerned.

Just a thought,

DAB