PS> MS>    Before I believe business is serious about wanting educated 
PS> workers,
PS> I'l
PS> MS>have to see some committment from business to not just hiring the 
PS> cheapest
PS> MS>labor available even though it's often absymally-educated even by 
PS> current U.S.
PS> MS>standards.
PS> MS>    When GM is moving production to Mexico, it isn't because the 
PS> workers
PS> the
PS> MS>are better educated than the ones left idled when GM shuts the 
PS> factory 
PS> here.
PS>  
PS>         Matt, I have to agree with you here.  No only are they
PS> attempting to give jobs away to who probably don't read or write, but
PS> they attempt to avoid taxes as well.  Look at Oregon for example.  
PS> Why
PS> are children having to go to the streets for funds for public 
PS> schools?
PS> When these folks say that they are willing to invest in education, 
PS> then
PS> I will believe that they are serious.
    I'm cynical about Big Business's "committment" to improved K-12 education 
for reasons far beyond whether some company will "invest" a few thousand 
dollars in computers for some elementary school.  I just see no committment 
being shown to hire educated workers when these companies move manufacturing 
to very-low-literacy nations, and I think teachers are being played for fools 
if they believe the Fortune 500 really cares about education reform.
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