Posted on 02/08/2024 11:50:55 AM PST by Retain Mike
Faced with a shortfall of more than 7,000 sailors, the head of Navy personnel is tapping into a new population of potential recruits: those who haven’t finished high school.
Since 2000, the Navy has not permitted anyone who did not have a high school or GED diploma to enlist in the sea service. But on Jan. 26, the service opened bootcamp to these Americans with some caveats, the Navy announced.
Vice Adm. Richard Cheeseman is aiming to enlist at least 500 people who did not finish high school or earn a GED diploma, he told USNI News this week. As of 2021, there were 2 million Americans ages 16-24 who fit that category, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Any American between 18 and 41 can now enlist in the Navy, as long as they score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test and meet other requirements outside of education, according to the Navy’s policy released.
There is already interest, Cheeseman said. Last year, 2,442 people without high school diplomas walked into recruiting offices.
“Thousands of folks have walked in the door and we had to turn them away, and I’m certain there’s untapped talent in that group of people, and I’m looking to capitalize on that,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
Oregon Eliminates Educational Standards
For this school year, Oregon students will not be required to demonstrate skills in reading, writing, and math. Until 2026, an Oregon high school diploma no longer guarantees academic achievement, but only participation in a system with undefined parameters. The legislators, school districts, and the governor supporting Senate Bill 744 saw that this “will benefit Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color”.
The state adopted the position held by many 19th century abolitionists. When I read Fredrick Douglass’ autobiographies, one passage always stays with me. After speaking to an abolitionist audience, Douglass considered the evening a great success, because he concluded his talk believing these people were convinced, he was equally human with them.
He mentioned this as a significant event, because many supporters of black freedom questioned whether these people were fully human. If educators would treat minorities as individuals, they would design programs allowing opportunities for achievement commensurate with those they see for white students.
I remember Dr. Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…..little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
To me these men’s understanding of brotherhood and individual value proves more meaningful than perceptions of racial or ethnic inferiority.
Oregon just dropped all graduation standards, failing all of its students in the name of ‘equity’
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4288044-oregon-just-dropped-all-graduation-standards-failing-all-of-its-students-in-the-name-of-equity/
Thought I’d better join before I got drafted.
yeah they only have to be able to run modern nuclear instruments and weapons...
If they cant read the dials whats the problem ???
"Lee Harvey, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy."
50? 50 out of 100? Is this from the Bee...
On the one hand, they don’t get to run nukes, electronics, etc. without first successfully completing the associated ‘trade schools’ and qualifying on every aspect of the thing they’re going to be running.
On the other hand ... idiots are not going to successfully complete that training, and the Navy may well be the most technological of the services. If they recruit a bunch of untrainable, unqualifiable idiots ... what is the Navy then going to do with them?
Well... somebody who doesn’t graduate from high school is at least malleable, maybe more so than somebody who is an experience party animal with college under their belt. Besides the military can train them up to GED... not a big deal.
ASVAB is more meaningful. I went to public school with city blacks.
They graduated. They didn’t earn it.
I like fast cars and fast women!
I don’t know if it has changed, but 50 meant percentile of test takers.
As in a 63 on the test put you in the top 37% of test takers.
A 100 is impossible, as being in the top 0% is mathematical nonsense.
What are they going to be, cooks ???
All the blacks ??? Hardly....
The military is DEI now...
They’ll go to the tech schools and get gifted a “passing grade” to run those nuke instruments...
and outrank the smarter white recruits with HS diplomas shortly thereafter...
-a bunch of untrainable, unqualifiable idiots ... what is the Navy then going to do with them?-
They will rinse dirty pot and pans and put them in the dishwasher while a highly trained sailor will push the start button.
I was in the USAF during Nam
I know how it was even back then...
Reading and comprehending is extremely low among non grads (HS) which means they may not understand safety rules, equipment operation, etc. This failure to understand can/will lead to accidents, injuries, deaths, etc.
....there used to be a saying in the Air Force that
our jets were “Designed by folks with PhDs and Masters
degrees, were flown by folks who had college degrees,
and maintained by folks who had high school diplomas.”
Well, I guess the Navy is heading away from having high
school diplomas, at least for some ratings (you probably
don’t need a diploma to become a Ship’s Serviceman or
a Boatswains Mate....)
Let the ASVAB sort them out.
Less exposure to public school is a positive. Hopefully the advanced techy jobs will go to the educated.
“McNamaras Morons” redux.
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