BROKEN: GOP Governors Proclaim End of Science Classes in Schools

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states that mock the Sciences in FL and TX, and students not having a rounded out education. Companies of course could get around this idiotic state limitation by simply moving the students/new hires away from the state(s) in question, to a more receptive state, etc.

Don't they realize that the Sciences field, does sometimes include the Computer Sciences field? Thus, in a way, they're mocking thousands of their own students currently in School, taking these courses in order to get their degrees in Computer Arts, in their own states?

The point I want to make was that IT was so new, that having an open mind to the Sciences was vital (and a lot of other doctorial level courses/degrees). Especially in the beginning when programming anything was basically brand new, never before done, and was basically a research credit on a company's tax returns (ours did, every dollar of IT was research credits on our tax returns).

As a hiring manager for IT professionals, I interviewed many candidates for IT slots, and it did raise questions in my mind (and others) as the competence of students from particular areas of the Country, when a state would attempt to limit a student's training/etc. We also hired those w/ doctorate degrees in other fields (the arts, language, etc.) for we had studies that revealed that such fields were beneficial to an IT background, an IT degree.

Now, when I started back in the mid-1970s, there were very few schools that had a full IT program (IT was a very new discipline, unheard of at many schools), so hiring students w/o a full degree (but having a decent IT background, a few courses) was a common occurrence.