Posted on 11/03/2019 3:08:19 PM PST by robowombat
terminated its eligibility for federal financial aid, forcing Decker to close its doors and file for bankruptcy.
Online classes in carpentry, electrician and HVAC.
“This is how you hold the hammer. This is how you swing the hammer.”
Exam:
1. Question 1. Which end of the hammer do you pick up?
2. Question 2. You have a 16D nail. What tool do you use?
3. Question 3. Which end of the nail do you strike with the hammer? The pointy end? Or the flat end?
4. Question 4. What do you say when you hit your thumb with the hammer instead of the nail?
The difference is that this was a trade school to train people in useful skills not Gender Studies.
Toivo: Eino, you dummy! Dose are for da udder side of da building.
I’ve been in construction all my life. It can cost a lot of money to go to a good trade school where you can actually earn a great income and do something useful.
But instead, kids get scholarships to learn gender studies as you said.
Yes, and when Decker closed it left a lot of the usual suspects, white males without a college degree high and dry.
You appear uninformed about trade schools.
It may surprise you to learn this, but there are many times when one should first strike the pointy end of the nail with the hammer.
This blunts the nail and can help prevent splitting the wood the nail is going to be driven into.
Hammers are more or less obsolete. Air nailers and cordless nailers are used for everything these days.
Every single person I know who has a pneumatic or electric nailer has several hammers. And he carries one in a belt loop while using the nailer.
I’ve worked outside in the construction business for the last 45 years. I carry a hammer. Sometimes you have to knock in a nail or squash a big bug.
It is interesting that the article did not note that William Weld is running for President and refers to him as William as opposed to Bill.
From his wiki page:
Kentucky college management
From January to October 2005, Weld was chief executive of Decker College in Louisville, Kentucky. His term ended as the college was closing under bankruptcy protection following a disagreement with the U.S. Department of Education about accreditation of its construction-related courses and online instruction. This matter would follow Weld into the 2006 race for Governor of New York, with former U.S. Senator from New York Alfonse D’Amato asserting that Weld was responsible and oversaw “multimillion dollar looting”.[57][58]
On March 27, 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported as part of an opinion article that “Bankruptcy trustee Robert Keats alleged [Ralph] LoBosco”, a Department of Education employee, “was trying to exact revenge against Decker CEO William Weld”. The article continued: “Education Department administrative law judge Robert Layton recently affirmed a 2012 bankruptcy court finding that the Council on Occupational Education had failed to tell the truth in stating that Decker’s online programs were never accredited. The Council’s ‘factually erroneous’ assertion caused the Education Department to withdraw federal student aid in 2005, which precipitated Decker’s bankruptcy.”[59]
Yeah, I noticed that, too.
I think a student could learn some basic electrician or HVAC concepts, and certain aspects of carpentry, such as general safety, online, but the thing about construction skills is that, eventually, you have to actually do them.
Yes, there’s a lot of stuff in the trades that one could learn on a computer.
I’ve used that trick many a time. It was a test. You passed!
A CORRESPONDENCE / ONLINE trade school. That’s what I was mocking.
I greatly respect trade schools.
Yep. Hard to teach swimming without getting into the pool or bicycling without hopping onto a bike.
If you could teach electrician-ing completely online, couldn’t you teach heart surgery completely online?
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