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Anonymous wrote:If you care about your children and your neighbors children you will help stop the h1b and opt job replacement visas

I expect this Congress to introduce and pass a bill to limit H-1B visas to a small number of critical-need talents. If you do not act, the program will continue to drive Americans out of these fields.

If you care about your children, you will start disciplining them so that they don't think they are the center of the Universe. You'll start making them read books and build things instead of playing games on their phones. You'll not helicopter their every interaction with authority. Then maybe hiring managers will actually want to hire US born workers rather than foreign workers.

You are naive. Money talks and if companies can hire indentured servants they will.

^^forgot to add. Failed a reading or math class required for graduation? No problem--take it over the summer through free credit-recovery classes where you will get an A, and then onward to the next level! The kids know this, and so do their parents.

Anonymous wrote:I work in the trades and I see this with our gen z’ers. They show up late, don’t want to work hard, spend too much time on their phones, etc., but that’s not the worst part.

The worst part is that they can’t even do simple math and reading. WHY would you work here if you can’t even do arithmetic!!?

I teach HS math and I agree with you about the arithmetic and reading skills, although I did teach arithmetic and fractions to a middle-aged man who had been laid off a few years ago and wanted to get into the trades, so it's not just Gen-z.

We've been told that close to a third of our incoming 9th graders are 2 years or more below grade level in reading. Most of them have no number sense, can't do basic arithmetic, and think it's their god-given right to use calculators. Most of them outright ignore their homework assignments. A good portion of those who turn it in use technology to do it for them.

Part of this I think is due to widespread technology use and lack of parenting. A good part of it is due to laws the public voted for to "make schools accountable" for teaching, passing and graduating students in a given amount of time.
We are forced to give students a minimum grade of 50% just for scribbling something on their exam or assignment. We are forced to have them use online graphing calculators like Desmos that do most of the math for them (those are also built into standardized tests). Quarterly grades can't be below 50% so a kid with a zero still ends up with 50%. We are forced to accept late work. We have to give retakes. Everyone is told to take 4 years of math in high school to impress colleges and get an "advanced diploma", even if the only reason they passed the previous class is because of all the fake grades. We're not allowed to advise on course placement and tell a kid they need a remedial class. Up until this year, we weren't allowed to do anything about phones--that almost all students were on all the time. Close to a fifth of our students are chronically absent.

I work in the trades and I see this with our gen z’ers. They show up late, don’t want to work hard, spend too much time on their phones, etc., but that’s not the worst part.

The worst part is that they can’t even do simple math and reading. WHY would you work here if you can’t even do arithmetic!!?

Anonymous wrote:We need 3-6 month hiring probationary periods, like in europe white collar and blue collar jobs.

Cut the incompetent ones early on.

Yes, push them into gubmint where they belong and can do the most damage.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is this in the political forum?

Because the elderly who started it couldn’t figure out which forum to put it in. Keeping up with technology is hard enough for the 80+ crowd.

People over 80 are from the Silent Generation. They are not Boomers. I guess math is too hard for you.

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Anonymous wrote:If you care about your children and your neighbors children you will help stop the h1b and opt job replacement visas

I expect this Congress to introduce and pass a bill to limit H-1B visas to a small number of critical-need talents. If you do not act, the program will continue to drive Americans out of these fields.

If you care about your children, you will start disciplining them so that they don't think they are the center of the Universe. You'll start making them read books and build things instead of playing games on their phones. You'll not helicopter their every interaction with authority. Then maybe hiring managers will actually want to hire US born workers rather than foreign workers.

Don’t helicopter your kids with authority, but also hover over them and dictate what they do with their free time ??

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Anonymous wrote:Universities no longer provide an education; only indoctrination.

This is the dumbest comment. Nobody is indoctrinated at universities. Did you even attend or you quoting some Fox News line?

Obviously you haven’t been in college for a few decades.

DP... Obviously, you are a FOX-News indoctrinated troll who just believes what they have to say about it.

Yeah, not much.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2023/04/13/shouting-down-speakers-who-offend

Do you really believe college students are packing auditoriums to protest for trans rights? Look at to picture that's with that article. A small classroom with fewer protestors than students in even an advance math lecture. When the numbers get up to a typical Pysch101 lecture, wake me.

It does exist. The article cites several examples of it. There's ideological programming and brainwashing everywhere. It has been building for the better part of two decades.

Sorry to rain on your sacred cow (and your safe space).

Ever heard of the 1960's counter culture? Youth rebellion has existed for probably centuries. Most college student still go about their class schedules and attend parties. Then they graduate and move to the next stage of life.

I agree there is something wrong, but it's not political indoctrination. Seriously the one being politically indoctrinated is you, and I hope someday you realize that.

Most 1960s hippies never amounted to anything and the other half carried the country.

Unf the 1960s hippies did infiltrate the universities with their hippie philosophy and helped created the current day mess in the college system and then replicated in the public k-12 system.

Most of the hippie's "get the man off our backs" became Reagan Republicans "get the government off our backs" and your weak understanding of higher education yields a woefully false conclusion.

Anonymous wrote:Qualified American workers. Lol

Go back to Russia, troll.

Anonymous wrote:Did we fail in educating them?

"The class of 2025 college graduates is entering a difficult job market. Not only is there economic uncertainty, but hiring managers also express skepticism about the capabilities and professionalism of young workers joining the workforce.

Resume.org surveyed 1,000 hiring managers in April to understand how they feel about hiring recent college grads and what challenges they’ve encountered with this group.

Takeaways:

8 in 10 hiring managers say a recent college graduate didn’t work out at their company in the past year, and 65% say they had to fire one

78% of hiring managers say recent grads spend too much time on their phones

More than half say recent grads are unprepared for the workforce and difficult to manage

1 in 6 are reluctant to hire this cohort"

More:

https://www.resume.org/recent-college-grads-are-hard-to-manage-and-always-on-their-phones-many-managers-avoid-hiring-them/

Now take a step back and consider that the ones who didn't go to college are even worse off, because they lacked the focus and will to even do enough to be able to get into college in the first place.

Stop attacking college, that's not where the problem lies.

We need 3-6 month hiring probationary periods, like in europe white collar and blue collar jobs.

Cut the incompetent ones early on.

Qualified American workers. Lol

Anonymous wrote:H1b has been replacing US citizens for 35 years now

Microsoft fired thousands of workers and yet continues to hire h1bs.

Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce and yet Microsoft maintaining 4,725 H-1B approvals.

H1B has NOTHING to do with filling skilled labor.

2 questions I challenge readers to answer ...

1. how could we have a skills shortage for over 35 years?

H1B was created by Bush Immigration act 1990 to address a mythical skills shortage, but that was the propaganda, it really was created to reduce salaries for Masters and PHds .

2. why are H1B visas allocated randomly, why not allocate visas based on salary, since the higher salary would be for the most desired skills?

this was recommended and almost implemented in 2021 but the industry roared about this, and it was ignored by Biden/Harris. The law needs to require that aliens be paid 150% of the normal wage for any of these jobs. a measure like this was adopted in Australia and it pretty much killed the desire for an alien workforce.

https://cis.org/Law/How-Many-Americans-Will-Companies-Missed-Out-H1B-Lottery-Hire

Agree. We need serious visa reform, to bring in the workers that we actually need, while not undercutting salaries and shutting out qualified American workers, particularly in tech.

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Anonymous wrote:If you care about your children and your neighbors children you will help stop the h1b and opt job replacement visas

I expect this Congress to introduce and pass a bill to limit H-1B visas to a small number of critical-need talents. If you do not act, the program will continue to drive Americans out of these fields.

If you care about your children, you will start disciplining them so that they don't think they are the center of the Universe. You'll start making them read books and build things instead of playing games on their phones. You'll not helicopter their every interaction with authority. Then maybe hiring managers will actually want to hire US born workers rather than foreign workers.

Touche