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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Jennifer Dozar wrote:
>
> > You know, not every very intelligent person has gone on to college.
> > There are genius people who choose to be electricians, but they can wiz
> > by you in many subject areas.
Funny you should mention that. England turns out to have a shortage of
people in skilled trades (like plumbers and electricians), and in the
post-bubble economy, apparently not a few former IT workers have gone into
training for those kinds of careers...
> Sure. A policy that has a weak effect and works "on average" would be
> fine. I'm not talking about sterilizing janitors or anything like that.
Ouch. But this is another point: at some point in the last few years,
almost all of the janitors here at MU started being Spanish-speaking
immigrants. Not a very pretty job, but apparently a better deal than they
had outside of the US; so much so that they were willing to put up with
not a little danger to get here. I have a suspicion that among their kids
we could end up seeing some very interesting people...
jking
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