Not Prepared
I recently participated in interviewing job applicants for work as a physical sciences laboratory technician.
The outstanding candidate was from Taiwan. Other good applicants came from the Philippines, India, Hong Kong, and Mexico. No one who had received a basic education in the United States was able to pass the written examination.
It is a good thing that Americans do not have to compete with the rest of the world. We are not prepared.
BRYAN CRANDALL
Monterey Park
Crandall is chair of the physics department at East Los Angeles College.
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