Unemployable?
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@Jolly said in Unemployable?:
I see piss-poor work ethic.
Local to your school district or Louisiana state-wide?
How do the native high schoolers and undergraduates compare to the immigrants when it comes to work ethic? (This assumes you can tell the immigrants apart from the natives. If you cannot, that's fine.)
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I semi agree with the article. I think that there has always been a tendency to say/think that the upcoming generation is not as hard working as "my" generation. I bet if we could go back in time, people in the 1820's would be complaining about lazy young people. LOL
Yet, the world continues to advance.
On the other side, I was reading an article about TSCM plant in Arizona and the problems they are continuing to have due to work culture, etc. It is about 1/2 staffed with Taiwanese right now, and the US workers don't appear as adaptable to shift to other job roles as well as work longer hours as needed.
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@Jolly said in Unemployable?:
I see piss-poor work ethic.
Local to your school district or Louisiana state-wide?
How do the native high schoolers and undergraduates compare to the immigrants when it comes to work ethic? (This assumes you can tell the immigrants apart from the natives. If you cannot, that's fine.)
@Axtremus said in Unemployable?:
@Jolly said in Unemployable?:
I see piss-poor work ethic.
Local to your school district or Louisiana state-wide?
How do the native high schoolers and undergraduates compare to the immigrants when it comes to work ethic? (This assumes you can tell the immigrants apart from the natives. If you cannot, that's fine.)
I can only speak to what I know. My father graduated from the local high school, I graduated from the local high school, my kids graduated from the local high school. The school is rural, but it's had a reputation (and the community) for turning out young people who would work. Country kids, with callused hands.
Not just blue collar jobs. There are two dozen STEM grads in my class. My wife's class has three physicians, one dentist and two lawyers. My son's class has kids that have worked for Apple, have worked at WWL and WGN, and are running major missions programs for the SBC.
In short, we knew how to work.
In the last fifteen years or so, I'm not seeing that. My son worked with kids that would go to football practice, haul hay all day, then go back for evening practice. I don't see that anymore. I don't see the dominance at state literary rallies. I don't see the dominance in athletics.
It may be lack of maturity. It may be that teachers are not as good as they used to be or maybe they're too restricted in subject matter and everything is geared towards standardized testing. It may just be that times have changed.
I don't know...
