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| Military service doesn't count when it comes to extra points for education |
| 2012-03-05 |
| Pretty disturbing when you consider how many men and women have served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, returned home, unable to find work, due to a perceived lack of education, despite training in the field. Now to have H.S. schools not even give credit to High School students who choose to join the military. I hope that the N.Y. schools will be successful in changing this policy, and to give credit to those students choose a military career. There used to a time, when joining the military was the Nobelist of career choices for families outside of the military. It seems that this choice doesn't seem to have the respect that it used to in certain sectors of society. This being a N.Y. story, gives me hope that this doesn't go on in other states. Give credit where credit is due; be mindful that the freedoms we enjoy today, were accomplished on the backs of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. |
| Posted by:Delphi |
| #8 Truthfully, most US education is nothing but classroom. Practical application means nothing to them. However, there are some variances. One that comes to mind is DeVry. They hire faculty from businesses in the field they will teach, not academia. Then the faculty run the school, with just a small group of administrators, also hired from similar roles in business, not academia. A delegate from one department will take off for a few days to attend some high tech conference, then debrief his department on upcoming technologies. Then they actually teach new tech, not just textbook, to their classes. They also hire prior service, if they know a subject they need and can prove they know it to the satisfaction of the other faculty in the department. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-03-05 09:45 |
| #7 As somebody said, if college were for everybody, nobody would flunk out. Dumb way to score schools. As it happens, less than half the relevant age cohort can get into the military if they want to. Mental, moral or physical difficulties. Few of which would keep a college from sucking your tuition, board and room, and book money from you. IMO, the scoring ought to be a fulltime job within one year of graduating, or college, or the military. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2012-03-05 08:21 |
| #6 how un-educated we really are down here You are uneducated---you don't understand that appearance is everything, whereas substance is nothing. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-03-05 04:33 |
| #5 Hope more weigh in. Tell them how un-educated we really are down here. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-03-05 01:13 |
| #4 Lets hope you don't have to. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-03-05 01:11 |
| #3 Thank you for your service newc. Nice to know someone here can put down some panels and call in an extraction. If Obama wins in Nov, I'll be giving you a call. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-03-05 01:06 |
| #2 Run a $33 Million dollar property book, advance Soldiers to a place using land, sea, or air. Use Airborne and Air-Assault as methods of moving equipment, Maintain an arms room and ammunition and secure it too, Buy enough rations to feed everyone for two weeks, make the trucks fit on the railroad, make the weight of the plane and your entire Company Manifest, Make sure there is water and sanitary service, make sure there is communications, make sure there are proper Ingress and Egress, secure a border, Field forced modular systems, manage building maintenance, making sure that 80% or more vehicles can run, breaking track, running a 9-line MEDIVAC with a VS-17 panel, Blowing up shit, digging command bunkers, placing sat dishes, maintaining inventory, maintaining the quarterly and yearly budget requests and balance sheets - and un-funded liabilities, waterborne training, survival, marksmanship, culture observation and situational awareness, learning how to fight... and how to run, to breach, to build bridges over water that tanks may use, to plot grid coordinates on the map where you want your gunner to shoot if you need it before you are there. To build a fort, to build a comples, to maintain a military courthouse or build a tax center. To buy medical supplies, to secure an airfield. ETC ETC ETC. I did some of that but that's not an education? But Barak Peron went to skool and was a state senator. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-03-05 00:57 |
| #1 Difficult to recommend Nando's in Bethesda, if you've never eaten there and don't know anyone who has. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-03-05 00:11 |