American are stupid/insane, they keep voting for the same people but expecting a different result.

Basically what I said in my post, but I got 0 Karma. I think karma function is: int karma(){ return rand(0,5);} I agree with you 100% btw. How long ago did this happen in Canada?

Or invest in training, although they won't do this because it is cheaper to layoff someone and replace them with a H1-B visa worker.

Companies want cheap labor, labor locked in with one company, and willing to work 60+ hours a week. Politicians are bought and paid for by business, thus H1-B visas and illegal immigrants are feeding labor pool to increase shareholder value and increase profits. It's not that complicated. If a politician truly cared about America and American workers, there would be no H1-B visas and no illegal immigration for low skilled workers. As a side note, Cezar Chavez was against illegal immigration because he knew that if there was a steady stream of low-skilled farm workers from Mexico, then that would dilute the power of his union. Companies would just hire from the very large pool created by illegal immigration. It is interesting that this administration had been talking about income inequality, but H1-B visas and illegal immigration lead to more income inequality not less. Again, not too complicated --- low supply higher wages, ample supply of labor lower wages.

Can't get enough H1-B visas, flood K-12 with $$$ to produce more software engineers.

And gender diversity in human resources.

I watched video, rather un-exciting. Spectators were 12km away. The MC said the sound would take about a minute to reach viewing audience, but I never heard explosion.

Agreed. Also cut war spending by 50% and get rid of the Dept. of Education.

Plus cut war spending in half. Get rid of Dept. of Education as well. That would be a good start.

They want more H1-B visas. They'll say if they have more H1-B visas they can hire the best and brightest from under represented groups. And then also allow their family members in as well.

"Why is it that there is only outrage when it is white males that dominate a given profession?" Why, because Silicon Valley and tech in general, wants more H1-B visas.

"Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" translated to voting parlance "Voting for the same people over and over again and expecting a different result". Conclusion, the American voter is insane.

nbauman,

I agree with you. A study was done once to see what two factors had the strongest association with higher test scores. With the one factor being test scores/performance the other factors were: education of teacher, amount of homework, length of school day, experience of teacher, and family income. The strongest predictor was family income.

The way the system is set up now, the new teacher's will be placed in the lowest performing schools. Low performing schools will have a large percentage of low income parents. Ergo, new teachers will be most likely to be let go because there students are not performing well. This is designed to fail the students and aspiring new teachers.

This ruling alone will not solve the troubles we have in education. The way it is done is backwards, the most difficult assignments should be given to the most experienced teachers. There are a few other professions, usually government based, that have this backwards way of assigning jobs.

Everyone in Silicon Valley? I believe the the high tech SV actually is low tech when it comes to telecommuting. Just look at what the new CEO did @ Yahoo, no more telecommuting. They could save billions of dollars in lost time, gas and housing costs if telecommuting was used more heavily in SV.

New teachers get the lowest performing kids. Veteran teachers teach the AP classes and honors classes. This is really the opposite as it should be. If teachers are retained or promoted based on performance, then those with students with higher skills will perform better. If a principal does not care for a teacher for whatever reason, he will just put the lowest performing, most troubled kids in that teachers classroom. This alone, will not solve the problem of low performing schools.