"By the time they got to Woodstock..."

[alfreda89]

"Ontario workers are well-trained."

A friend sent this to me, commenting that the Southeast apparently has chosen to remain in the 19th century in more than one way--and this employer's decision reflects the situation.

And note the remark about health care...

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/050630/b0630102.html

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[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment.

The said part is that it would take more than a generation to fix this problem, and only if we started now.

I wonder if this story will get any play here in the States...?

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this story will get any play here in the States...?

I was wondering the same thing--irate parents screaming about schools, senators asking for more money--but I don't know anymore if there is a climate encouraging learning in the southeast. Don't get me wrong--there are great universities in the south, William & Mary, excellent state universities, etc. But stats show that people in the south aren't as educated, get married sooner, get divorced more often, and earn less. (If we'd only known...Lincoln should have let them secede.)

Without a change in that climate, I'm not sure money will help.