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Detroit schools offer class in how to to work at Walmart
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 833035:MV85ODgzOThfMTU1MDExNThfOUQwQUM5QQ==] [quote:Anonymous Coward 882932] Wal Mart should be paying to train people themselves. Tax payers shouldn't be paying for their free training. School is supposed to be for educating! I'm sure it some 3rd party non-profit outfit owned by some Liberals. just a scam to bleed taxpayer money into the liberals pockets at the expense of the rest of us. [/quote] Ummm, probably ACORN or whatever they are calling themselves now. [/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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