Top 100 Least-Educated Cities (pop. 5000+)

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K-12 isn't enough?

Is this a joke?

Nope, how much schooling should the government provide? k-12 is sufficient.

[memphis]

K-12 isn't enough?

Is this a joke?

Nope, how much schooling should the government provide? k-12 is sufficient.

Sufficient to get you into the unskilled labor market. It's a disgrace that the prerequisite education for a professional career requires taking on a five (or sometimes for doctors or lawyers, six) figure debt.

[??????????]

K-12 isn't enough?

Is this a joke?

Nope, how much schooling should the government provide? k-12 is sufficient.

Sufficient to get you into the unskilled labor market. It's a disgrace that the prerequisite education for a professional career requires taking on a five (or sometimes for doctors or lawyers, six) figure debt.

That's not the role of the government.

[Smash255]

I'm surprised Edgefield County/Murphy's Village SC isn't on the list due to the fact that it is home to large numbers of Irish Travelers, or Hillsdale Utah/Colorado City Arizona which is home to the polygamous FLDS. Nether group encourages higher education or even beyond high school as the Irish Travelers pull their children out after 8th grade, and the FLDS usually don't allow their children an education beyond high school if that In addition to the fact that most schools FLDS students attend at this level is controlled by the FLDS leadership it's self so obviously not a  unbiased academic environment.

All have populations under 5,000.

[phk]

We get it. Latino immigrants don't come here with a degree from Harvard under their belt.

Bringing in under educated workers into a society transitioning out of heavy industry is probably a bad idea, especially when the flow is uncontrolled.

Maybe. But not offering inexpensive and available education is the government's own failure.

The Mexican government's failure.

[dead0man]

Even if they do have skills, or a degree, why does it seem like they're too good to pick, and clean along with the rest?

100% agree.  If there are apples that need picked while dumbasses with worthless degrees are collecting unemployment then we have a problem.  It's not the American taxpayer's fault you got a stupid degree in ancient greek or english lit.

The problem is that you wouldn't want to eat the fruit that you picked, not at the price they'd be going at.

I'd have no problem letting the market decide how much a pound of apples should cost in 2010.  If we can't find anybody at $8/hr to pick the apples then we'll have to pay more for our apples.  Subsidizing it by turning a blind eye to illegal immigration isn't fair to anybody.  If we don't have enough labor (HA!), we can let more people in legally to do the work.

[minionofmidas]

Here in Germany, all the Labour-intensive harvesting is done by perfectly legal migrant workers from Eastern Europe. There's a special seasonal work permit, you're required to leave again afterwards. Of course, that's exactly what most of your Mexican fruitpickers do too, with the difference being that they also see to it that their children are born in the US (for the birthright citizenship, and the ability to legally migrate to and fro ever after.)
Basically, farmers pay wages that are only competitive on the condition that they're spent elsewhere. They have to compete with the prize of imported strawberries and wine and asparagus after all (just listing the relevant crops where I come from).

[Holmes]

K-12 isn't enough?

Is this a joke?

Nope, how much schooling should the government provide? k-12 is sufficient.

Sufficient to get you into the unskilled labor market. It's a disgrace that the prerequisite education for a professional career requires taking on a five (or sometimes for doctors or lawyers, six) figure debt.

That's not the role of the government.

Then enjoy your unskilled and unprepared workforce.

We get it. Latino immigrants don't come here with a degree from Harvard under their belt.

Bringing in under educated workers into a society transitioning out of heavy industry is probably a bad idea, especially when the flow is uncontrolled.

Maybe. But not offering inexpensive and available education is the government's own failure.

The Mexican government's failure.

It's the US's problem when they're working in the country, not Mexico.