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Default OT - Basic Skills in Today's World

Good for you and/or your employer.

Just another view on the subject of education. Say you have a very
lucrative hand assembly job for some of your machined components, but the
actual procedure is so simple/boring that 'nobody in their right mind' would
sit there all day doing it.

Will you insist on the person you hire for the job have math skills, etc, or
would you settle for someone with a somewhat lower IQ who would be very
happy to sit there all day? In other words, what happens to the individuals
who don't happen to have the intellectual capacity on par with your top
machinists?

Are they to be forever 'held back' in school till they become laughing stock
of their so called class mates? Or should they be given a 'lower' grade,
and proceed along with their friends/peers and ultimately enter society with
some sense of dignity, get that boring assembly job you have and work
tirelessly etc. for you?

I saw a scenario similar to this happen. After a employee was pestered for
so long, he did quit...... It took four(4) other employees to do the same
job, each only able to tolerate it for about 2 hours. Oh well............

Ace

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A little background. I'm the foreman of a small machine shop. Business has
been picking up greatly and we are in need of machinists. We are having
very


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