Posted on 03/11/2017 5:19:16 AM PST by OttawaFreeper
So, the title is a lie. Honestly, I’d rather my child have a cisco certification than a history degree. Any day of the week.
Considering the attitude toward education that exists throughout the ‘hood and the quality of the available schools, by the time high school is finished, yes, vocational training would be much more suitable. Actually many of them have been getting vocational training from a very young age. They have learned the business of illicit drug, production, sales and delivery. They start their training as lookouts and delivery boys and work up through petty sales. Those that survive the training graduate to full market operations, buying and selling, transportation and production.
Great quote.
Check out #15.
How many more blacks do we need with “black studies” degrees? In my college the vast majority of blacks were athletes taking useless courses or angry blacks in self segregated grievence studies. I think there were maybe 2 or 3 in the engineering program. The community college tech school had people learning trades, that I am sure, are happier and more prosperous than any of the black students at the university. Why pay a 100 thousand bucks for some angry professor to tell you you will never succeed, you are surrounded by racists, and everything is someone elses fault? Or go to tech school and learn to provide your own way in life by fixing cars and making a good living. Who has improved more lives? Don Lemon or Jamal the auto mechanic?
“College is Not For Black Students” is in quotes, but no where in the article do they actually “quote” the senator saying this.
You need to read your WE salary source more carefully.
>>Strange, I thought it was the dems who try to keep the blacks uneducated and on welfare so they can control the votes better.<<
That’s right
And that’s exactly what they’re doing by forcing blacks to go to college where they will fail, or at least they will fail to acquire any marketable occupational skill, rather than going to a vocational school where they would learn something they could use to support themselves and their families.
Agreed. Your comments make me think of an article I read in National Review’s annual education issue some years back and they discussed how particularly appalling the situation in California is concerning basically useless courses and study programs (history of rap music, etc) with the public universities and their ways of keeping their minority numbers at a certain level with such courses and programs.
These guys learn to come to work on time, not mouth off to the super, work hard and best of all- get a steady paycheck.Many never have had a stable income before and after 2 or 3 checks they decide hey! it's good to be civilized. One starts as a laborer for $12 an hour and if he keeps his nose clean and works diligently after a year or three he will be asked to take training as a carpenter or electrician or welder or painter, whatever is needed at the time. Income immediately goes up $3 an hour and increases as the skill increase. If he sticks at that for another ,say, 3 years he can go to another shipyard in Louisiana or Texas and get 50 per cent more to start.
I worked there as a security guard for 3 years and watched it all happening. Perhaps 5% of new hires don't make it- take a punch at a supervisor or get caught with drugs or something, but the rest do. Those without ability to acquire skills can stay as laborers and their pay will increase with longevity.
One fellow said to me, hey, it beats hell out of dealing drugs. "All that easy money was pretty small and you was poor in between."
Yeah, I never said it was easy to become an electrician.
No matter what job you do, you have to show up and work hard and there is obviously a ton to learn. (I can change a light bulb, personally, and anything beyond that I have to call someone in.) But you don’t need a 4 year degree, and you can make a very decent living.
Yeah, I never said it was easy to become an electrician.
No matter what job you do, you have to show up and work hard and there is obviously a ton to learn. (I can change a light bulb, personally, and anything beyond that I have to call someone in.) But you don’t need a 4 year degree, and you can make a very decent living.
I went to 4 newspaper sites including the original Carlisle Sentinel site. None of them gave the full quote of what Eichelberger said. Unlike a physical newspaper there is no space limitation on an internet story so there is no excuse to paraphrase or ellipse out a full quote. There should even be a link to the full audio of what he said in full context. Feh on the modern news reporter.
If reporters know that you will have the facts to fight back, they might be less eager to lie in the first place.
Stupider than in AZ? Now that’s a stretch.
I've been a knockabout and done a lot of very interesting things and but I would have savings, a good retirement, all that stuff, had I taken that opportunity to learn a trade.
I have a well off neighbor who is a mason. Similar story.
Your garbageman is way, way more important than ANY congresscritter.
Want proof?
Go a month without your garbageman.
Go a month with your critter.
See?
Any time a Republican says anything with or implying the words “black” “brown” “red” he is monitored, recorded, and impaled on his words.
For the higher paying vo-tech jobs, one needs actual 12th grade or more math and reading skills. If they don't have those skills for college, they won't get through vo-tech training either.
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