Posted on 01/06/2009 5:42:23 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
Why the rudeness? As a poster pointed out, a high school diploma is not federally mandated for this job. My wife taught high school and has long blamed the high drop out rate in many shcools on the fact that some kids just don’t belong there-not to mention as states have ‘toughened’ their curriculum some kids can’t make it. Bill Gates has called High School obsolete and said it needs to be changed to fit modern life. It is not necessary to have a college bound high school degree to do some jobs and should not be mandated. There is nothing wrong with trade. We have become degree mad in the last decade or two.
***Lib prying and pressure cost this boy his apprenticeship.***
Did a little prying myself...............plan on doing a little skip tracing myself with this bunch cuz I’m sick of’em........let you all know what I find.........
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This is a pile of stinking moose poop.
Levi is a productive member of society, providing for his wife and newborn child. If he was black, there would be howls of indignity—the “man” trying to keep a good brother down and all that baloney.
Time for a conservative in AK to step up to the plate, and hire Levi while he is getting his GED.
To work as a roustabout—guess what—a diploma and toilet paper carry the same weight. Levi probably knows more about oil rigs and electrical work than most people, even at 18.
Job #2 for some AK conservatives: the game can be played both ways. Let’s see if Dan Fagan has unpaid parking tickets or library fines.
After all RULES ARE RULES.
You betcha.
You’re missing the point. The company hired him knowing his qualifications (or lack thereof) that’s their prerogative. It wasn’t until people on the outside stuck their noses where they didn’t belong, and made it an issue, that the pressure forced him to have to leave.
Absolutely, his talents lie elsewhere. The one size fits all education in this country is a disaster for many kids.
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Palin, in an interview Monday, said she considered Fagan's column "a political potshot taken at me," one that threatens to "destroy a young man's opportunity for work."
These two statements are key I think. The requirement for a high school diploma was NOT a federal requirement, but a company policy that the company chose to not enforce at the time of Levi's hiring for whatever reason.
Levi is in fact being treated differently than the average 18-year-old kid, and he has to be royally pissed off about it. But, he is handling himself well, and not physically going after the libs who are attacking him, like I would have done when I was a hot-headed youth of 18 back in the good ol' days.
Next, Governor Palin is exactly right in that these indirect potshots taken at her are in fact damaging Levi's employability. I mean, who would want to hire this young man knowing that lib scum will be nosing around their business practices and policies just to get at Governor Palin through Levi.
Simply disgusting!
A couple of things that Sarah needs to watch out for (as well as Bobby Jindal):
1. How many U.S. Attorneys and what kind are attached to the District Offices in Juneau and Anchorage. Also, you want to look at the U.S. Attorneys attached to Baton Rouge and New Orleans. I predict a constant series of civil rights, labor rights, and other cases in Federal Court naming Palin and Jindal as defendants.
2. Levi Johnston needs to graduate from High School and join the U.S. Army. A drill instructor will square him away, and get him access to G.I. benefits. He has a wife and kid now.
Best,
Chris
Bump
***If the rules are you have to have a highschool degree to qualify then he has to have a degree, period....not that hard.***
Yeah, yeah! Maybe the boy should just give up and become ah, ah, ah Community Organizer......yeah! That’s it!!! Then he can hoodwink Amerika and run for prez!
Maybe Levi was really knowledgeable and good at the job...it should be a company’s decision not the governments or a malicious talk show jockey.
Good for them.
Good one! It is time to find that Faggot Fagan in bed with a goat and publish the photos on the web. LOL
He was probably forced to quit so he could come back after the stupid GED is finished...probably rules against rehiring fired workers.
P.S. There may be an overriding company policy that permits children of employees a job...I don't believe everything I read.
In early September, Levi finally landed a job as a roustabout on an ASRC project in Valdez, Johnston said.
Levi did well, showed a good attitude and didn't complain about working in the weather, he said.
After that job ended and layoffs started coming, ASRC offered him a choice of two other positions, one in Cook Inlet and another through the electrical apprenticeship program in the Milne Point oil field, Johnston said.
Levi took the Milne Point gig starting around the first of November. He also decided it would be better to work online toward a regular high school diploma than to seek a GED, his father said.
As for the requirement of a high school diploma to be in the apprenticeship program, Keith Johnston said, "It's just something that slipped through the cracks." He said the lack of a diploma wasn't something that managers at ASRC caught and neither he nor Levi gave it much thought.
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ASRC spokespersons declined to comment on Levi Johnston directly, citing employee privacy.
In a written statement, the company said its electrical apprenticeship program eligibility requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, "but this is not a requirement mandated by the federal government."
The statement also says, "The information provided by the applicant to the company is relied upon to be true and correct."
Keith Johnston said his son never told ASRC he had a high school education when he really didn't. Rather, he said, the lack of a diploma was something that was simply overlooked as Levi transferred from the Valdez job to the Slope job.
No photos of the baby have been published yet.
Since I don't read People magazine, I didn't know that. I hadn't even seen an FR post about it.
I don't think they just gave them away.
I don't think they gave them away either but did the magazine print a picture of the check to show the $300,000 amount? (I've also heard that People is denying that rumor.).
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Apparently it is. Look, the kid got into a program he probably should have been disqualified for and he got caught. I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Go back, get his diploma, and then hit the job market again. Then nobody can question his being there.
My wife taught high school and has long blamed the high drop out rate in many shcools on the fact that some kids just don’t belong there-not to mention as states have ‘toughened’ their curriculum some kids can’t make it.
There is nothing that an average teenager can't do in high school if they set their mind to it. It isn't rocket science. If a kid can't whip up the internal discipline needed to make it through 4 years of high school then his or her chances of being disciplined enough to succeed in the real world are poor.
There is nothing wrong with trade.
No there isn't. And if Johnson's goal in life is to be a North Slope electrician then I wish him all the best. College isn't for everyone. I have two degrees, my daughter is bound for a 4 year university, and her boyfriend is just starting a HVAC course of study at the local junior college. That's fine. I have no doubt that he will be a success in life. But he's made sure that he has met the requirements to start the program. Johnson should have done the same.
Why doesn’t he get the GED, RIGHT THIS MINUTE???? I joined the Corps in 81 after 3 years of high school. I had basically stopped going to school after the 6th grade. I had been in for one year when they pressured me to get my GED. Scheduled the test on Mon, took the test on Thurs, end of story. No studying whatsoever. If anybody out there has taken it you know what I mean. Only a real dumbass couldn’t pass that test in 5 mins with NO STUDYING WHATSOEVER.
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