From Townhabl.com

American Kids Need to Know More Than How To Text-They Need 
Training In Computer Skills Now!
  Steve Sherman May 19, 2016 12:01 AM
  Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders love to talk about the hollowed 
out middle class and the horrors of outsourcing all the good jobs 
to China and abroad, but they don't say how were going to fix it.
  Trump will get China in a room and negotiate them to death.  
Boom! We win...'Merica! Okay, but then what?
  Bernie will sign an executive order decreeing that all jobs 
must remain in America and pay at least $15/hour.  Okay, but come 
back to reality.  They pay less than that in Malaysia and India 
and everywhere.  That won't bring any jobs home.
  Sorry Hillary, I have no idea what you will do.  Probably send 
an unsecured email about it! The Russian hackers will laugh 
themselves silly reading that.
  What would happen if suddenly Trump negotiated or Bernie 
decreed all the jobs lost oversees back to U.S.  soil? Nothing.
  We don't have enough people trained in computer sciences to 
handle it.  That's the cold hard facts folks.  The jobs will 
never come home until we start training our kids to be 
programmers and engineers.  We couldn't fill those jobs if we 
wanted to.  No matter what politicians want to say, we are in an 
education crisis.
  If the politicians don't get behind education reform that 
starts teaching our kids for the jobs of the new millennia forget 
about whatever else they say.  Conservatives need to be problem 
solvers and find a way to make American education great again.  
For real...n a slogan.  Don't believe me? I'm not alone crying in 
the wilderness.  Here is another piece highlighting our dilemma.  
Not enough American Kids Trained in Computer Science.
  From there the problem gets much worse.  This is critical.  Our 
nation is in dire shape now and will remain so if we don't 
address this.  The next problem we face is national security.  We 
have nation of kids that can kickass in the video battles of 
Mortal Kombat 6 or Call of Duty 4, but have no idea how to defend 
our nation from the real world cyber-attacks that are already 
happening.
  We must entice those kids off the couch.  Encourage them to put 
down the virtual joy stick and learn how to combat against real 
Russian and Chinese hackers out to bring America to ruin.  We 
must train American kids to do this.  You can't outsource 
America's national security problems to a team of tech guys in 
India.  It has to be our kids.  Here's another piece proving my 
point.  The next national security crisis: We must make plans now 
to defeat growing cyber threat.
  Trump can build a wall and Bernie might give away the entire 
world, but our Millennials and the generation coming up behind 
them must be trained in the computer sciences.  According to the 
Computer Science Education Coalition (CSEC) there are currently 
more 600,000 unfilled computer jobs in the U.S.  and only about 
42,000 new people graduated with degrees in computer science last 
year.  By 2024 there will be more than 1 million computer job 
openings, unfilled.  National security is a problem I believe is 
clearly defined as a federal responsibility and it's time to view 
this education problem in that light.






Congress could get behind putting cutting edge computers in every 
classroom, but will they?
  You might think...hasn't that already been done? No, it hasn't.  
Only one out of four K-12 schools even teaches computer science.  
Senator John Boozman's (R-Arkansas) home state has what they 
called the Computer Science Initiative that put computer science 
education as a top priority.  It would be great if he would lead 
on this at the federal level.  Rep.  Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) and 
Sen.  Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) should look at this issue in the 
upcoming budget debates.
  There really is no time to wait.  As much as politicians love 
to give speeches about job creation, nationally security, and 
helping the kids you'd think this would be a top priority, but 
it's not.  Until it is a national priority we will continue to 
lose jobs overseas and become less safe here at home.  It's 
really that simple.
  The politician who picks this up and runs with it will be a 
true American hero.


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