Posted on 01/01/2012 10:48:30 AM PST by markomalley
Employers are facing more uncertainty in the wake of a letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warning them that requiring a high school diploma from a job applicant might violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The development also has some wondering if the agency’s advice will result in an educational backlash by creating less of an incentive for some high-school students to graduate.
The “informal discussion letter” from the EEOC said an employer’s requirement of a high school diploma, long a standard criteria for screening potential employees, must be “job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity.” The letter was posted on the commission’s website on Dec. 2.
Employers could run afoul of the ADA if their requirement of a high school diploma ” ‘screens out’ an individual who is unable to graduate because of a learning disability that meets the ADA’s definition of ‘disability,’ ” the EEOC explained.
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People never understand the real reason a HS diploma is desired by employers. A boss knows that a new employee will have to learn on and about the job. A diploma demonstrates that the ejob seeker has the ability to learn. If a job seeker has successfully learned the quadratic equation, the Congress of Vienna, and the differences between simile and metaphor, things he probably had little or no interest in, he can be expected to learn things he’s interested in, how to replace a tranny, create spreadsheets etc.That’s what a HS diploma demonstrates.
Sooooo, I guess this means we no longer need to fund public education? NO diplomas, NO schools, NO teachers union. Hey this could be a good thing, right?
i agree 100%, but... the employer should have the right to determine what the requirements are, not the federal governmentif they see fit to hire someone without one, fine, they are the one paying them
i just don't see it as something the feds should have any say in anymore than they should be able to demand no one can have a job without one
Bingo.
The ADA was a huge mistake by GHWB. It never had clear boundaries - it continues to metastasize.
This development is rich. It may even top the assertion once that a deaf person should be given the necessary accommodation to serve as an office receptionist.
I agree
Abolish ADA, abolish IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and abolish the EEOC. It would save lots of taxpayer dollars, stimulate the creation of jobs, and improve public education.
The ADA was designed to hurt America, not help the disabled.
This is a great decision by the EEOC. In the nuclear facility where I work, everyone with high school degrees think they’re so smart and book learned. High school is too much learnin with nothing to show for it.
That work ethic thing is getting harder and harder to find. At times I have had to struggle to keep mine going since it seems to get nowhere when the lazy, lying, and the lame are rewarded.
I have a couple weeks of subcontracting out for a questionable technology company as a van driver. They offered me a lead job but turned it down due to absurdly low money and the crop of ragamuffins they hire. Think the reformed (maybe) crackhead, gang-banger, drunk, whatever that are the majority of the crews. A few of them are OK.
I opted for the van driver because it paid better than lead and got me out of the literal 30-40 pages of stuff that has to be faxed each site and there are three a night. That isn’t the 5-7 copies that have to go in each large box of stuff that goes back.
My Dell operations are never anywhere near that paperwork intensive and pay better. I laughed some at the guy who was field training me and another person about this must be some sad joke. He responded it is standard procedure and he developed some of it.
Those qualifications will buy an IT job in some state of SC departments. I found that out too many times.
You have to be tall and/or very athletic to play in the NBA. No fair!
It’s a sign of things to come (gov’t controlled progeny). Nearly almost ALL children today are “diagnosed” with a “learning disability” due to behavioral problems brought about by inept parents (namely free rangers who have bought the gov’t sponsored psychobabble prattle) IOW, let your kid do what he/she wants, give in to his/her tantrum.. .err I mean oppositional defiance disorder, be his/her BFF (best friend forever) and definitely DON’T discipline.
“Everybody wins/gets an award” type crap. Pump him/her up with dangerous mind bending drugs instead.
The government has equated all structure/boundaries/discipline/training with child abuse.
Agree wholeheartedly. If an employer wants to make an exception, I don’t see why they should be prevented from doing so.
And why not? I thought that most homeschooling programs had to meet state education requirements and that at a minimum would more than qualify a person to take and pass the GED test.
Let's call “public” education what it is: Socialist education!
It is the very definition of a compulsory-funded, compulsory-attendance, single-payer socialist program.
Socialist, single-payer, compulsory-use, compulsory-funded programs can't be reformed or “improved”. They must be abolished.
There are plenty of government **teachers** out there who can not pass the GED ( especially the math section).
And,... as an employer, I promise you that there are huge numbers of graduates of our nation's socialist K-12 schools who can barely read and can not add two columns of numbers without a calculator. Fractions? Decimals? Long division? Subtraction? Are you kidding?
My feeling is that homeschoolers should be held to the **exact** same standards used for those kids attending our nation's socialist K-12 schools. Obviously the government's standards for promotion from grade to grade in its socialist indoctrination camps is complete illiteracy and innumeracy. So? That should be the **same** standard the government should apply for homeschoolers.
If you are curious about state homeschool requirements I recommend the Homeschool Legal Defense Association website.
Some states have no regulations on homeschooling whatsoever. Others require that parents submit portfolio of the children work for review. ( This was the case for my homeschoolers in Maryland in the 80s and 90s). Some require evaluations by certified teachers.
Overall, though, homeschoolesr score 30 or more percentile points higher than average socialist schooled children, therefore, legislators see little reason to further regulate homeschooling.
We homeschooled our daughter all the way through HS, and she has a diploma. I signed it myself.
BTW, she was graduated university with honors, only one B from a 4.0 cumulative GPA.
I know a government teacher who also sells crap on eBay because he claims his $80K salary isn't enough to live on and make the payments on his McMansion. He claims his taxes are killing him, but he is too stupid to realize why.
He has two degrees. His eBay descriptions are full of misspellings, bad grammar, impossible sentence structure, and wrong words. They are so bad that any of the English teachers that I had growing up would have torn their hair out.
We homeschooled and my son’s diploma is signed by me. It was accepted by the colleges where he applied. He has graduated from college too.
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