[2ndDivisionVet]

I ran similar programs in the past in Texas and Iowa. One thing I found is that attitude is EVERYTHING! If an individual wants to work, he or she will, if they don't, all the programs in the world are useless.

[MSF BU]

...the military has a number of programs that do this without all of the attendant nonsense.

[evad]

I settle for a program that trains them to “think”.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I agree with you. I have never run a program but I have interviewed and hired many young people over the years.

[RC2]

Isn’t this what High School is supposed to do? Not to fill out applications but to think for yourself. Kids can’t even read and write today.

[Marysecretary]

I was in the Box Project many years ago and had a family living near Greenwood in the Delta area, Itta Bena. I often wonder what happened to them. It was a wonderful blessing to be able to send monthly boxes to them, especially at Christmas.

[MuttTheHoople]

Here’s the problem with this. Jackson State has developed a huge school for “Department of Public Service”, ie, a Department of Government Jobs. If J-State had done as much work developing a Department of Business and Industry, or Arts and Sciences, they might be able to crank out better than functionally illiterate graduates.

[endthematrix]

"They’ll be prepared, when they leave this program, to conduct themselves in a professional manner."

The Public School Lobby's talking points are that homeschoolers don't have social skills!

[SuziQ]

True, attitude is the key, but having a leg up on your peers is a good thing, too. Many of us look back from a time span of 35 years or so since we applied for our first jobs, and think it shouldn’t be so hard to get a job. Times have changed, and the situation is tough for folks in poor areas, like Greenwood, MS, who don’t have a lot of models among friends and family about how to get and keep a job, in order to work themselves up into something better. It’s been tough for years, so it’s great that there is a mechanism by which those to want to take advantage of a way to get themselves ahead can do so, with fewer roadblocks.

[3Lean]

“For example, if a participant had an eighth-grade rating at the beginning of the three-week program and increased his rating to that of a 10th-grader, he would receive $50.”

So if they sandbag the initial test they can earn some easy cash...

The costs of this program should be deducted from the salaries of teachers and administrators at the local schools, who obviously aren’t doing their jobs at all.

[rolling_stone]

Joseph Mencia has a course to help these unemployed get one of the yobs 25 million illegals seem to have no problem finding...yobs “Americans won’t do”

[ladyjane]

For some reason, interview skills aren’t taught in high school or college, he said.

LOL. If you don't have manners and know how to behave in an interview by the time you reach high school you're destined to have employment difficulties.