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It's about time... Canada's age of consent raised by ag__wyvern2008-05-05 11:20:37
  maybe I don't understand the issue by symbiont1b2008-05-05 14:38:12
    It's an arbitrary limit... by bitflipper2008-05-05 14:57:07
      And on a related note... by esbita2008-05-05 15:23:23
        Yet another point in favor of my little propositio by bitflipper2008-05-05 15:36:26
          Yes, however, this is the fault of our education by esbita2008-05-05 15:47:06
            Sadly, what we have asked of our education system by bitflipper 2008-05-05 15:55:27
...since the 70's is pretty much to be a baby-sitting service. I take heart, though, that these things come and go in swings; I think we're only a few years away from seeing the pendulum swing the other way, and from seeing new demands being placed on our educational system...from corporate entities.

Training is always an expense that management claims it supports, but it's also always one of the first expenses cut. Corporate America doesn't like having to train employees any more than is necessary. I've already seen several programs--at the collegiate level--funded from corporate sources to produce degreed professionals capable of the jobs the funding corporations want, and I'm begining to hear rumors of such sponsorship extending into the high schools. The thing is, when a company pays for the program, the students learn the skills the company is looking for, or the company cuts the funding. It's a marvelous incentive to trim the fat out of the curriculum, as well as a means of providing the teaching institution with the monies--and sometimes the equipment--to do an adequate job of teaching, instead of just watching over kids who are bored to tears because their "education" has been rendered meaningless.
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              Case in point.... by esbita2008-05-05 15:57:55
                Therein lies sign of another problem entirely by bitflipper2008-05-05 16:00:08
                  Yes, but a significant obstacle.... by esbita2008-05-05 16:02:55
              Well yes. "Critical Thinking skills" are lauded.. by swisscheese2008-05-05 16:25:12

 

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