An Angry Black Woman’s Rant on the Future of STEM Education

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:not interested in stem for my kids. They can get some vo-tech stem degree in college if they really want to. Humanities, especially writing, literature, history, music is what they need to be engaged, successful people in the world.

Um, STEM doesn't mean vo-tech. That's a whole different thing. But, vo-tech also an area that is greatly needed.

Why do we always give short schrift to vo-tech education?

Cause the illegals do it for cheap and it doesn't take a 4 year commitment

What illegals do isn't "vo tech".

An illegal immigrant isn't going to be the one on a construction site who understands the electrical code and local ordinances, who's reading the plans, doing the scheduling and planning, ordering the materials, preparing invoices, working with architects and engineers, working with inspectors, et cetera. The ones who do make good money and are highly valued in industry.

The illegals on the other hand are are typically just low wage, unskilled, semi-skilled grunts and laborers, hired for the day, who just tote, fetch and follow simple directions.

[Anonymous]

Vo tech can lead to stable jobs. Better than a JD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not interested in stem for my kids. They can get some vo-tech stem degree in college if they really want to. Humanities, especially writing, literature, history, music is what they need to be engaged, successful people in the world.

Um, STEM doesn't mean vo-tech. That's a whole different thing. But, vo-tech also an area that is greatly needed.

Why do we always give short schrift to vo-tech education?

The poster that you were responding to was not disparaging vo-tech careers and in fact specifically stated that they are "greatly needed".

The fact of the matter is that we (as a system) have manage to do both poorly. If we ever hope to narrow the yawning income gap in this city, we need to do both STEM and Vo-Tech much better than we currently are.

Lockheed is providing a $2M Project Lead the Way grant to DCPS to improve STEM curriculum and programming (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dcps-to-expand-stem-courses-thanks-to-a-2-million-lockheed-martin-grant/2014/11/07/90c16cea-66be-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AAs will own the STEM jobs in the near future. Many seem to have been raised with the aggressive self confident attitude to make it work.

Actually it takes brains, not "aggressive self confidence".

[Anonymous]

Stay racist dcum.....stay racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not interested in stem for my kids. They can get some vo-tech stem degree in college if they really want to. Humanities, especially writing, literature, history, music is what they need to be engaged, successful people in the world.

Um, STEM doesn't mean vo-tech. That's a whole different thing. But, vo-tech also an area that is greatly needed.

Why do we always give short schrift to vo-tech education?

Cause the illegals do it for cheap and it doesn't take a 4 year commitment

What illegals do isn't "vo tech".

An illegal immigrant isn't going to be the one on a construction site who understands the electrical code and local ordinances, who's reading the plans, doing the scheduling and planning, ordering the materials, preparing invoices, working with architects and engineers, working with inspectors, et cetera. The ones who do make good money and are highly valued in industry.

The illegals on the other hand are are typically just low wage, unskilled, semi-skilled grunts and laborers, hired for the day, who just tote, fetch and follow simple directions.

Sorry but that is typically a GC and usually has a 4 year degree. It is happening, the cheaper undocumented labor is taking over all of the work except for the higher up. So what you get is a highly paid GC and an assistant who speaks Spanish and low paid undocumented electricians, plumbers, drywall, carpenters etc.... I have met the undocumented workers and they are in fact as good and sometimes better than the causation ones who typically will whine and work a minimal amount of hours and demand higher pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not interested in stem for my kids. They can get some vo-tech stem degree in college if they really want to. Humanities, especially writing, literature, history, music is what they need to be engaged, successful people in the world.

Um, STEM doesn't mean vo-tech. That's a whole different thing. But, vo-tech also an area that is greatly needed.

Why do we always give short schrift to vo-tech education?

Cause the illegals do it for cheap and it doesn't take a 4 year commitment

What illegals do isn't "vo tech".

An illegal immigrant isn't going to be the one on a construction site who understands the electrical code and local ordinances, who's reading the plans, doing the scheduling and planning, ordering the materials, preparing invoices, working with architects and engineers, working with inspectors, et cetera. The ones who do make good money and are highly valued in industry.

The illegals on the other hand are are typically just low wage, unskilled, semi-skilled grunts and laborers, hired for the day, who just tote, fetch and follow simple directions.

Sorry but that is typically a GC and usually has a 4 year degree. It is happening, the cheaper undocumented labor is taking over all of the work except for the higher up. So what you get is a highly paid GC and an assistant who speaks Spanish and low paid undocumented electricians, plumbers, drywall, carpenters etc.... I have met the undocumented workers and they are in fact as good and sometimes better than the causation ones who typically will whine and work a minimal amount of hours and demand higher pay.

Caucasian not causation