Re: [PLUG] Tech jobs and politics, and IT diploma mills

[Magnus <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 10:29 AM, William H. Magill wrote:

> Easy...  These are the same people who believe that taking an old 16 
> meg 286 out of the trash, "making it work again," and then giving it 
> to people who don't have a computer is really a good thing -- because 
> its better than nothing!

I think you will have a hard time finding people as enthusiastic about 
old hardware as I am ( http://trilug.org/~chrish/museum/ ) but the kids 
in these schools are being mislead into thinking that they are going to 
come out the other side of this experience with relevant skills working 
for big businesses.  If they want to open a small neighborhood computer 
repair shop, that's fine, but they should be given an accurate 
representation of what sort of job they are being prepared for.

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C. Magnus Hedemark
http://trilug.org/~chrish
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