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Re:Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress by Kadin on Friday May 13, 2011 @03:16PM (#2545803)
When the average person who comes out of it can get themselves a living-wage job without loading up on debt for "higher education" in order to learn a marketable skill?

High schools used to concentrate on teaching young adults what they needed to know in order to survive independently. At some point they stopped doing that, perhaps because they're still trying to teach them to read. But that seems like a problem.

Re:Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress by jerfelix on Friday May 13, 2011 @03:42PM (#2545896)
So how is this change in strategy a "funding" problem?
Re:Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress by nitrogen on Friday May 13, 2011 @08:49PM (#2546778)
Funding is being allocated to the wrong areas. Therefore it is a funding problem.