Posted on 12/27/2006 5:59:04 PM PST by wintertime
Re:#2
The NEA states that "all of our citizens, at minimum, need a high school education. " Really? Does it occur to them that a certain percentage of the population is utterly incapable of graduating from high school? To force them, or any unwilling young adult, into government "graduation centers " until age 21 is nothing less than torture, imprisonment, and slavery. Oh...and we do have the example of the Amish who are noted for running highly successful businesses and farms without the benefit of any high school education.
re:#6 Of course it is left unsaid, but the NEA wants **compulsory*** pre-kindergarten, not just the option. Well...if pre-school is better than starting at kindergarten (at preventing young adults from imprisonment in "graduating centers"), why not take infants from their mother's arms in the delivery room? They could be raised by NEA workers in "beginning centers". ( sarc)
Gee! Could it be that the NEA is really just trying increase membership and doesn't give a twit about real kids and the parents?
re: #12
Translation: The federal government will squeeze states by the throat just as they are doing with NCLB by threating to withold federal dollars. Then,,,amazingly,,,EVERY state will make "high school graduation compulsory", and imprisonment in "graduating centers" mandatory for those 19 to 21 who don't get that diploma.
Re: All of the above
Compulsory government school means armed police, court, and foster care action against any citizen who refuses to cooperate. Remember that. If you do not believe me, do a Google search on the words "Truant and Police". There are real bullets in those guns on the hip!
The NEA are brown shirts who wish to enslave and imprison people. Sorry,,,but they are evil! They are evil and and threat to the liberty of every citizen in America. It is time we called them what they are: Tyrants!
And finally,,of course, the high school diploma will be worth even less than it is today. In my office I will not even interview a person with a high school diploma. They only way I can know that an applicant can read is if they have had at least some community college. ( By the way, the job could be done by any normal Amish kid.)
That's a billion a year? What the hell are the going to do? Buy each kid a new Cadillac and a hooker to use for the entire school year if they promise not to dropout?
I'm all for it. Let the teachers go into the ghettos and haul the gang bangers into school. I have no problem with this. Really, it just ain't gonna happen.
They need an education, not indoctrination. There is a difference. Unfortunately, the NEA and its goons are too stupid to know the difference. Perhaps they themselves need to taste their own medicine.
...too late, NEA and corporate relatives of public school teachers. Your children will be nothing more than lowly "consumers" to my children (consultants for production of useful items) and the children of foreignors. They will defeat your incompetent ventures, as you throw your revenues at political correctness ("domestic violence in the workplace," nausea into infinity) and your new feudalism born from import economics (getting paid for having foreign slaves do all of the work).
#14: Privatize schools. Use performance-based contracts for those privatized schools with independent verification of performance standards.
#15: Allow and fully fund school choice.
They must've just forgotten the last three points of the plan!
That would fix their wagon real fast.
"Graduation centers"? Will there be crematoria for those who fail to graduate?
I have seen Soylent Green, I know what happens to those who do not graduate!
Or else what? A stern look?
Bottom line: more jobs for unionized teachers.
It is more then that. The longer they keep these kids in the system the harder it is to teach them later.
I remember watching "Amish in the City" a few years back. One of them, Jonas, decided to take the GED high school equivalence test. With his eighth grade Amish education, he easily passed the test, scoring in the 98th percentile in some categories.
Perhaps they themselves need to taste their own medicine.
That would fix their wagon real fast.
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Maybe they should be imprisoned in "education centers" until they can learn how to teach basic reading and arithmetic.
Graduation centers"? Will there be crematoria for those who fail to graduate?
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Sick, sick, sick, ,,,,but my husband and I are sitting here laughing and laughing! :)
Why do you rely on credentials at all? With some thought and experimentation, you can develop a series of tasks and assignments that will require job candidates to demonstrate their capacity to read, competently use software and equipment, deal with customers, track down information using online search engines, etc.
One thing I have found useful in assessing general ability to absorb and retain significant blocks of subject matter is to review a candidate's transcript (and any who claim a diploma or degree, are required to provide a certified transcript as a prelude to scheduling an interview), pick out a few standard courses that I know in some depth, and quiz the candidate on the fundamentals of the material covered in such courses. If they don't have a clue, I know that either they never digested the material in the first place, or "pressed clear" when the course was over. In either case, my interest in them declines rapidly. I ask them to direct me to the parts of the transcript that they think they DID digest, and ask them questions about those courses. If they are clueless even there, - - - -bye bye (or, at least, credential value = 0). If they have a degree with a dissertaion, I ask for the title, check it out at the national repository for dissertations, ask for a copy of it, and then ask them background questions on the content.
If you think (with some reason) that credentials are an unreliable indicator of capacity to do the job, then you should develop your own measures of capacity, using help from others in your organization to probe areas with which you are not personally familiar. We generally have at least half a dozen people from different areas interact with the candidate in this way, and save ourselves a lot of grief in hiring by doing so.
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