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A diploma isn't everything.(Letter to the Editor)
In Tamar Jacoby's "Debating Immigration" (Oct. 10), the suggestion is made that there is a great demand for unskilled labor owing to the fact that "less than 10 percent of American men drop out of high school" today.
After 29 years of teaching in public high schools, I can assure you that there is plenty of unskilled labor. More students are graduated today because the schools are ...
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