*Could you outsource our public schools as well? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://today.reuters.com/news/artic..._0_US-LIFE-EDUCATION-INDIA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22 Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour -- in India. "It's made the biggest difference. My daughter is literally at the top of every single one of her classes and she has never done that before," said Robison, a single mother from Modesto. - Reuters
I have mixed feelings about the tutoring as an out source. On one hand, it's our responsibility to give our kids an edge.If it works for real, great. On the other hand, with our out of balance trade agreements cuasing jobs to go off shore and skilled jobs becoming less available and our work society becoming a low paid service industry there are problems. What will these kids do and for what wages if we don't start keeping the money in the US and the Jobs in the US? We must become a manufacturing nation again for the availability of skilled jobs to be adaquate for all the educated folks to get jobs that pay well. They are becoming few and far between because of outsourcing. In the mean time, these nations that hate us with a passion in the big picture get richer and us more relient on them. That's gonna hurt us. In fact it is already. :/
My mom volunteered as a tutor at a local middle school a few years ago. I felt sorry ... for the students
In ways I see your view...but I believe that mechanization of labor will eventually destroy physical labor jobs (here and abroad). I believe most jobs will involve the mind in the future, and nothing else. The faster the internet goes, the faster I see education going there. We're going through an odd era. Sort of what farmer were going through after the industrial revolution. There jobs were being marginalized for industry. Nearly everyone used to work in farming a long time. Now we produce ten times as much with very few people in farming labor.