Originally Posted by
catonec
I have a degree in electronics technology, I work directly for big blue.
I work in cleanroom and dress like this
I work for a company that makes suits like that. (Except ours are sterile as well)
Originally Posted by
the sci guy
I taught 5th grade for the past 6 years. I love my profession, but hate my job. The bullcrap going on in the world of US education has forced me to change careers, and that saddens me.
I once taught Computer Aided Drafting in the for-profit vocational ed industry for a "Technical Institute" that shall not be named. I feel your pain, especially over the mistaken notion that some people have that those problems are all the teachers fault. In my experience the students, and to a lesser extent the parents deserve much of that "credit". This is even worse in the for profit sector where the profit motive gives a huge incentive to make unrealistic promises to students. I was expected to perform magic on apathetic students, many of whom only wanted to be shown the easy way to success.
Those for-profits are sucking up huge amounts of the educational budget that public and non-profit private schools have depended on. I know of two, U O Phoenix and the crooks I used to work for who get 80% of their revenue from taxpayer funded sources, mostly local and federal student aid, including the GI bill, and students loans, which are defaulted on at a higher rate than at the non-profits.