Manual arts for U.S. kids? Try mall arts
What on earth does letter writer Dee Bauer-DeVries think “undocumented workers” are for? (“Prepare students for manual arts, too,” Aug. 27.) And does she really believe it’s a coincidence that these people — most of whom work in the trades — have a growing presence here at the same time vocational training in the public schools has all but disappeared?
American students who do not go to college are the mall cell- phone-and-sunglass-kiosk clerks of the future! Somebody has to do these jobs, since the “undocumented workers” are all here for the jobs “Americans won’t do,” such as those in the trades.
This is a win-win for everyone. Employers no longer need to bother training 19-year-old American kids to be framers or roofers when they can just hire some 30-year-old “undocumented worker” who's been working that job for 15 years. And those mall kiosks will never go without clerks!
I can’t see a thing wrong with this arrangement.
J.M. Schell, Arvada
LOL ..... youre trying to be funny right?
Posted by on September 4, 2007 05:07 AMWhat? or should I say DUH
Posted by FW on September 5, 2007 05:46 AM