Posted on 12/29/2001 9:21:07 AM PST by GeneD
The lessons of 9/11 are fading fast.
Personally I think that a lot(not a majority) of todays drop outs are bored with today's "dumbed down" standards.
I have no idea if Michael Dell(owner of Dell computers) dropped out, but he did start his company when he was 18. Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard after his freshmen year.
IMHO, this furor over having a high school diploma is the NYT trying to protect the public education establishmnet.
Like I stated before I would rather have somebody who has worked for a reputable security firm and who maybe a drop out, than a person with a freshly minted high school diploma.
But I understand your point, and I used to believe that graduating from High School was a test of a kid's ability to stick to a task and finish what he started. But today, there are essentially NO standards, and a kid in Anchorage who wants the diploma can just slide on through, doing little or nothing and learning not a whole lot.
Just so long as he doesn't get caught with a toy gun or a Boy Scout knife in school, he WILL get a diploma. It's for the administrators, and their cushy jobs and good retirements- nothing to do with the kids at all.
Of course some kids excel- but these are the ones would do well in any system you could set up. The need is to raise standards and expectations for the bottom 50%.
I know someone who went to college full time for eight years.
He learned something about gooseberries.
I don't think his education would make him a good security screener.
Have I missed anything? Or are those the high points of this story?
Congressman Billybob
You left out the "M" in "Democrat." As you spelled it, "Deocrat" "Godly ruler."
Not to worry. Education is compulsory up to age 12 in Mexico. These screeners will know enough read a ballot in Spanish and vote for President Bush when he runs for re-election--which, I gather, is the point.
I view with far more alarm the apparent requirement that common sense be disgarded when the guvmint searches for solutions to this problem. I have known Phd's with mashed potatoes for common sense and tenth graders that had plenty of the required commodity.
The Association of Flight Attendants, the largest flight attendants union, has also protested the lack of an education requirement, saying it fears the government will hire too many of the same screeners who allowed terrorists on the planes in the first place.
I can't recall. Could someone fill me in? What was it that the screeners on 9/11 did that was wrong or a violation of the rules. Also, what group established those rules in the first place?
I agree with you. There is a shortage of jobs for low-skilled workers in our information economy. You don't need to be very bright to look at a CRT all day or wave a wand. In fact, I would go out on a limb and say that being very bright would make one a WORSE screener.
Back in the days of "typists" and "file clerks," I always felt that the best ones were not too bright - the typists and clerks with college degrees were always "improving" things and/or so bored they didn't care.
If the new airport security measures provide stable jobs with benefits for those Americans born on the left-hand side of the IQ bell curve, then this is a good thing.
Mineta is a Bush appointee. On a matter of this importance, he must have checked with President Bush, and Bush must have given his OK. But the blame where it belongs.
Ya.....right! Now instead of low paid morons we'll have high paid morons. BOHICA
Isn't that the job of the Postal Service???
Come on now, admit it. You know you posted it twice.
Confess...you'll feel better OR report to the torture chamber
;-)
Why should the Dems have to answer for this? Note Kay Bailey Hutchison, quoted above, is a Republican.
Yes.
Once you have enough positive documentation they are incompetent and you (the boss) need to "take action" the fun begins.
First, you won't be able to fire them for incompetence unless they first go through at least a six month program of on-the-job retraining. This goes along with the extensive counseling, periodic individual reviews and reams and reams of scrutinizeable (by employee's and/or Union's representatives and lawyers, of course) documentation. Next, if the Union, EEOC, Human Resources, or the Sexual Equality Review Panels haven't got any problems with it and aren't fighting for them, the boss has survived the scores of hours of his required paperwork and reviews, and his/her boss agrees, Personell buys off on the action and the employee is still judged "incomptent" ,... you will have to find them another Federal job more "suitable" for them - which they may either accept or reject. If they refuse, then you might be able to fire them.
The alternative is, if the employee was involved in something criminal to start with, you might have a chance of getting rid of them with a little less trouble, but not much. Watch out for the lawyers, though! *wink, wink*
Otherwise, one is stuck with them, usually forever, unless you can somehow get them transferred to some other unwary sucker.
Now, tell me how all this has "improved" airline security?
But yet our government refuses to close our borders and stop all Visa's for protection of it's citizens.
If there is any more American blood spilled by the way of terrorism in America, the President, the Senate, and the House have to take some responsibility
My thoughts exactly. We aren't talking rocket science
here.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.