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Detroit schools offer class in how to to work at Walmart
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 853475:MV85ODgzOThfMTU1MDEwODJfNUQ2OTUxRkU=] [quote:Art Deco] As much as I despise Wal-Mart, I think what the school system is a good thing. Whether or not the students are able to get a job at Wal-Mart, they're still learning skills to help them get jobs, somewhere. I wish both the school system, and the students the best of luck; I hope it works out. Art, I agree with what you say in theory. However, the sad reality, is there aren't going to be any jobs for them to get, and if they are, they will be competing with every other 20-50 year old (modest estimate) who is unemployed and trying to get the same job. Nothing at all wrong with teaching skills. The thing is, they are perpetuating a fantasy world where there are just tons of jobs for everyone. It simply isn't so, unfortunately. the sad thing is, with the reality being what it is, I have to agree with you. [/quote] That doesn't make me happy either, only in the aspect that I'm not alone in seeing that is how it is. Whole world is in bad shape. :( [/quote]
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Walmart has been widely condemned for offering its employees only low-paying, dead end jobs. Even President Obama criticized Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign for having served on Walmart's board and stated that the firm ought to pay "a living wage."
In inner-city Detroit, however, where the unemployment rate is estimated at an astonishing 50%, the prospect of a Walmart job may appear far more attractive.
Four inner-city Detroit high schools have decided that employment with Walmart is an opportunity worth training their students to pursue. The schools have teamed up with the giant merchandiser to offer a for-credit class in job-readiness training that also includes entry-level after-school jobs.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the principal at one of the schools optimistically suggested that "the program will allow students an opportunity to earn money and to be exposed to people from different cultures -- since all of the stores are in the suburbs."
The announcement of the program outraged Donna Stern, the Midwest coordinator for the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). "They’re going to train students to be subservient workers" she told the Free Press.
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] is not why parents send them to school."
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