Posted on 02/06/2014 8:02:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Helicopter parents, professors who aim to please, the dumbing down of standards in courses and decreasing curriculum requirements have succeeded in reducing our young workforce to a no-discipline, no-talent pool of job seekers. Harsh words for sure — but a generation out there is desperately in need of a reality check.
As a small-business employer, I have seen a disturbing downward talent drift in job candidates — most acutely in the past five years. When a job candidate’s first question is about vacation days or benefits, we know we have encountered collateral damage from the teachers and parents who believed in “softening the learning experience.” Armed with a meaningless bachelor’s degree from colleges and universities that allowed majors in non-core subjects, we see youngsters who cannot write, research or think analytically. Their lack of discipline is evident in job applications filled with typos and cover letters that reveal no interest in teamwork or service — rather, they emphasize their high opinion of themselves. (Many young job seekers come forward with an executive attitude that is backed by zero capabilities).
To heap insult on injury, this generation is unable to face criticism or negative evaluations. Having been shielded from the hardships of tough educational standards, they require praise and positivity — no matter how superficial their work and dedication may be. Recently, George Washington University Medical School offered faculty the opportunity to attend a lecture on how to work with millenials. It has come to this: They cannot perform, so it falls to employers to figure out how best to save their careers.
As someone who has worked with countless extraordinarily hard-working and skilled young people over the years, the dearth of college graduates with any ability is fear-inducing....
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This problem actually started in the early 1970’s.
That was the beginning of the overly educated fools with degrees that were worthless.
Affirmative action as a part of the great society’s war on poverty, had started taking its toll. The totally inept got into college, played the game, never learned anything of value, and got worthless degrees. Then, with the backing of EOC and other acronyms they got jobs, continued to play the game and got promoted. They were like mini future Obamas. Obama is the ultimate poster child of affirmative action re getting into colleges, getting unearned degrees and getting elected because of what he represented as a poster child, not on any values.
Besides screwing up the job market, these real life failures had children, got their spoiled kids into schools that they rigged and got involved in and controlled their kids’s educational systems from pre school through so called advanced degrees. They pushed the many worthless new math schemes and other worthless concepts. Now, the Core Concept is dumbing down even more American kids each day.
Their children the current so called Millennials, haven’t worked, never learned how to talk with and deal positively with adults, and have zero reliability or common sense. They offer nothing but immature behavior and zero job skills. Then, they wonder why no one will hire them in spite of their 3 page resumes with zero real world skills to offer in a tough job market.
The rats and lord Obozo realize this in their voting group. That is why they are pushing making minimum wages obsolete and want $15 an hour for their dumbed down voters to say, “Do you want fries with your order?”
They will also get free birth control, abortions, endless so called mental health care with their free Obozo Care.
They will be forever dependent on our tax $’s to pay for their miserable lifestyles. That will guarantee votes for the rats for decades to come, if America lasts that long.
The students are choosing to continue to learn impractical things. They are choosing to run up debt, they are choosing to just look down on trade and look down on being practical. I should have articulated, that life is about being practical, not brutal. A practical reality. Being a realist. I am bewildered as to why people choose to keep making the wrong choices, despite the obvious consequences.
This generation has all the information in the world to make the right choices, but chooses to make irresponsible ones. They should be out learning a trade and learning useful things while enjoying life. Yet they choose to ignore the realities of our economy and realities of what they should be learning and how they should be building their lives along lines of practical ways of making a living.
Yet, many are getting the idea that life should be fun, with a little work on the side.
Yup.
Want a job...learn a trade. Ever try to find a plumber?
I think a lot of it is laziness, few want to take the time to build their own business. A trade, a passport, and you can make a fortune off of the Saudis or other wealthy Arabs who want to have someone do dirty work.
A fully licensed HVAC tech can draw his own map. They don’t even need to start a business...just get the training. The demand is there.
You might be on call, you might spend a lot of time in basements or tight spaces frigging with things that don’t work right....but you get paid well.
Or septic tank inspector. You can make your own life and enjoy life as well.
None of the paypal founders went to college in VT.
I’ve been here my entire life and I am not aware of any tiny college that produces lots of millionaires. We have Bennington and Middlebury but most of their alums come in as millionaires. There’s also Goddard College which produces overeducated hippies.
I can't believe how many people (young and not so young) are eating and drinking at church now. WTH? People can't make it an hour or so?
I don’t know about phone calls, but the moms have support groups on Facebook where they can chat with each other about their kids and then the recruiting classes have FB or Youtube pages where they post updates on what the class is doing, along with pictures of the recruits doing various training tasks.
I agree. Very often companies want a pre-packaged, ready-made employee that can do the whole job on day one. I see ads where companies want manufacturing employees who already know how to work specific machines. That's just crazy.
That is the other side of the coin. These types are exactly what the govt. is encouraging. These are “youngsters who cannot write, research or think analytically.” If you can’t research, you can’t discover the truth. If you can’t think analytically, you can’t logically determine the truth. All these things lead to brainwashed citizens who are too stupid to make decisions for themselves. Citizens too stupid to care for themselves need a nanny. The state will be that nanny and will take everything from you in order to do that job for everyone whether they want or need a nanny or not.
Your son and his friends will be paying for those needs to be met. In fact, the govt. would rather have more needy citizens. The more needy citizens, the more votes they can count on receiving. So they will make sure your son and friends find it so hard to make it on their own, logic will tell them it would be better to stop struggling to do it.
This is the world that is being created for our children. They are intentionally being fattened up, softened up, and dumbed down. They are lambs for the slaughter.
Almost all of our students worked AND went to school. There really wasn't much time for the impractical stuff. Some had children to deal with or aged parents, or a variety of other things. One young man (19) had to deal with his alcoholic mother.
They don't ignore reality--they DEAL with it. I often asked them, with a smile, if they were on the four-year plan to finish two years (60 units). Sometimes they came to class and I could see that they were just BEAT.
People don't stop making bad choices just because they are older. Some continue the stupidity throughout their entire lives. Some people learn early. There is no predictor, I found.
I LOVED those students and was proud of them and their accomplishments. I was on their side! They deserved it.
When I strike it rich, I’m going to start helping students pay off their loan debt. Mainly the STEM students. They need a break and ITA about older people being stupid.
Slaves do not need to be intelligent. They only need to be obedient.
No—low value leftist ideology attracts low value period.
Killing the work ethic on a societal level.
Don't do it. Paying off loans builds character. Being helped TOO much has brought us a generation of enabled folks who get "helped" so much they NEVER learn to FOLLOW THROUGH and bail themselves out of debt.
How will they ever learn if they keep being rescued and helped? Let them WORK OFF their loans and learn the value of doing it for THEMSELVES, not being helped by do-gooders and mommies.
Human resources
There goes another charitable idea out the window. What about paying a scholarship for the sons/daughters of military personnel and our police officers/firefighters?
Bingo.
1. You deprecate my negation of "Charitable ideas" trying to make me the BAD GUY. Won't work. Charity = giveaway. You SAP strength and independence with making a "mommy state." That only works for children who DO need help and we OUGHT to teach our children to be INDEPENDENT, not to stay on the NIPPLE longer than necessary.
2. GREAT idea.
AmerI CAN.
Welfare = AmerICAN'T
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