Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn...
by dehrmann on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:00PM
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I'm guessing Saturn's concern was specifically with workers with just a high school diploma?
What makes this amusing is Saturn was probably looking to open plants in the South because most of the states are right-to-work states that are more business friendly and have fewer worker protections. The less-government approach that attracted them there also drove them away because less government also meant worse schools and worse workers.
But it also has a broad problem of lack of quality of high school level education. Maybe a few good suburban school but the average is terrible.
Tuscaloosa is education center of Alabama, having the university of Alabama but secondary education is bad enough stop companies locating there.
"Around the late 1980s/early 1990s Saturn chose not to locate a plant in Tuscaloosa because of the performance of the public schools, and by 1993 the city leadership wanted Mercedes-Benz to build a plant there."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscaloosa_City_Schools