Lets Outsource Education and get ride of the Teachers Unions
Sep 29th 2006MichaelGeek Stuff
Americans outsource to get cheaper labor for unskilled labor and now we are starting to outsource teaching of basic skills.
The outsourcing trend that fueled a boom in Asian call centers staffed by educated, low-paid workers manning phones around the clock for U.S. banks and other industries is moving fast into an area at the heart of U.S. culture: education.
This is bad.
A New Delhi tutoring company, Educomp Solutions Ltd., estimates the U.S. tutoring market at $8 billion and growing. Online companies, both from the United States and India, are looking to tap millions of dollars available to firms under the U.S. No Child Left Behind Act for remedial tutoring.
Teachers unions hope to stop that from happening.
But you might think the language barrier or accent is bad.
Denise Robison said Taylor had trouble understanding her tutor’s accent at first. “Now that she is used to it, it doesn’t bother her at all,” she said.
Will this be worse than what our Teachers are doing to our students now?
