[Great68]

A dirty little (maybe not so) secret of the USA is just how much they exploit their own citizens for cheap labour.

I first clued into how bad their education system must actually be was way back when I was selected by BCIT to be on the team to go down to Houston to compete in the ISA student games.

It was basically a series of challenges/problems that you had to work through. Not only did we blow through these problems in record time, but we were the only team that actually completed every problem. This was against teams from other technical colleges around the USA.

I was pretty dumbfounded just how bad they were. I guess that's why in all the tv & movies it seems like such a "big deal" that the character is going to post secondary.

There was an afterparty after the competition, and all of us on our team were swarmed by recruiters from the big energy companies ie: Chevron, BP etc "Here take our card give us a call!" lol