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<blockquote data-quote="Flipx99" data-source="post: 3508163" data-attributes="member: 562352">My father is lucky in that he works for a company where it requires a human to do the job and by the time the technology is there, he will be retired. Outsourcings is limited as there are negative savings during shipments. The product must be temperature controlled from production to utilization...moving across the ocean on a barge makes the product too hot and spoiled. Again, that is by a stroke of luck.I don&#039;t think throwing money at the problem in the solution. What we need is a total shift in how we go about educating...we spend too much time focusing on things that aren&#039;t really relevant and not enough times on things that are. Instead of spending time talking about the history of our government, perhaps we spend more time talking about decision making skills and understanding the real consequences of our actions. &quot;Think sexytime is great fun? Well, did you know it costs xx.yy to raise the child, it will be hard to make enough money to raise the child because you can&#039;t afford school and childcare...as social benefits are cut, you become stuck.&quot; or &quot;Selling dope is not a good occupation. Did you know the average drug dealer makes less than the minimum wage? And if you are the &#039;best drug dealer&#039; then you have to worry about kingpin laws or worse getting killed by a rival&quot;. Those are real lessons that I think would have a far greater impact. Instead of heart-moving movies, maybe show videos of people getting beat down with baseball bats in a drug related robbery. Show videos of people stealing from their grandmother to fund their next fix. Teach people to be forward thinking. You can throw a trillion dollars in our school system and nothing will change until we change what and how we teach.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flipx99, post: 3508163, member: 562352"] My father is lucky in that he works for a company where it requires a human to do the job and by the time the technology is there, he will be retired. Outsourcings is limited as there are negative savings during shipments. The product must be temperature controlled from production to utilization...moving across the ocean on a barge makes the product too hot and spoiled. Again, that is by a stroke of luck. I don't think throwing money at the problem in the solution. What we need is a total shift in how we go about educating...we spend too much time focusing on things that aren't really relevant and not enough times on things that are. Instead of spending time talking about the history of our government, perhaps we spend more time talking about decision making skills and understanding the real consequences of our actions. "Think sexytime is great fun? Well, did you know it costs xx.yy to raise the child, it will be hard to make enough money to raise the child because you can't afford school and childcare...as social benefits are cut, you become stuck." or "Selling dope is not a good occupation. Did you know the average drug dealer makes less than the minimum wage? And if you are the 'best drug dealer' then you have to worry about kingpin laws or worse getting killed by a rival". Those are real lessons that I think would have a far greater impact. Instead of heart-moving movies, maybe show videos of people getting beat down with baseball bats in a drug related robbery. Show videos of people stealing from their grandmother to fund their next fix. Teach people to be forward thinking. You can throw a trillion dollars in our school system and nothing will change until we change what and how we teach. [/QUOTE]

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