{"id":9194,"date":"2005-07-05T11:01:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T08:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/05\/education-in-the-red-states\/"},"modified":"2005-07-05T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T08:01:37","slug":"education-in-the-red-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/05\/education-in-the-red-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Education in the Red States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ovid has an insightful post<\/a> in his LiveJournal<\/a> that touches on the topic of education in the United States. Here is a quote that he quotes:<\/p>\n

[Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association,] 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Make sure to read the comments as well. There are some interesting bits, like this one for example:<\/p>\n

There is a high percentage of folks who do not let their kids go to school because they actually believe schools poison their children’s minds…and no, I am not kidding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fascinating, isn’t it?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Ovid has an insightful post in his LiveJournal that touches on the topic of education in the United States. Here is a quote that he quotes: [Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association,] said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and … Continue reading Education in the Red States<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15506,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/14\/sysadmins-vs-programmers\/","url_meta":{"origin":9194,"position":0},"title":"Sysadmins vs. programmers","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In a Slashdot thread on the topic of the Programmer's Day, I came across this insightful comment, with which, having been both a sysadmin and a programmer, I have to somewhat agree. 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