Decades of research shows job training programs don't work at scale because of lack of *supply* of appropriate good jobs. There are always nice learned-to-code stories (I'm one: started coding as a kid and it literally saved my life) but those don't scale.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/mined-minds-west-virginia-coding.html …
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Many of these programs are strict—you attend 100% or get kicked out. If you are poor to begin with, stuff goes wrong. Car has flat tire, can't get fixed immediately. Childcare falls through. "Bootcamp" is fine for college grad living with parent or someone with compatible degree.
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Plus, their path to employment -- you'll learn, you'll apprentice, you'll star, you'll be hired -- was moonshine. This looks like an old-fashioned con job in trendy clothes. Nothing tech about it, except the rhetoric.
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YES. In a nutshell. Our college did a "16 weeks to a career!!" and pilot looks great b/c there were a handful of highly educated new immigrants needing specific English skills. *So many people* w/ crappy K-12...
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