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On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:01:37 -0400, Dan Espen
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Ed Pawlowski writes:

On 8/9/2020 3:26 PM, %% wrote:


"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
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On 8/8/2020 6:07 PM, Snag wrote:

Jump down from that soapbox Boob F . We lived in a mostly black
neighborhood , our kids went to school with black kids and my wife
taught in a mostly black school in the Arkansas Delta region . The
one recurrent theme we found was that most black kids don't do
well in school . Not from lack of talent or intelligence , but
because of PEER PRESSURE . Those black people that gave so much to
give these children a chance to succeed must be spinning in their
graves at the way these kids have thrown away all that they worked
and sacrificed for .

Snag, you really hit it there. That is ne loop that has to be
broken. Too many are not qualified to do a job if one is available.

We had need for some very low skilled workers I'd never hire
anyone that did not graduate high school. I found out that if you
did not have enough moxie to get through 12 years of school, you
were not going to do well in the workplace either.

Can't agree with that. Mate of mine who I have known since he was a
school
kid is one of those people who arent academic at all. His dad died when
he
was at the bottom of high school and his mother was a school teacher.
He
decided to drop out of school a full year before that was even legal.

He ended up doing fine, doing the major media golf events and stuff
like that.
So you know of one. I know of at least a dozen that did not make it
and wasted time hiring and training. There is no excuse in the past
few decades not to finish school. It is not 1940 any more where you
quit to help the family after 8th grade.

Believe it or not, some people are really incapable of school learning.
Hopefully they can develop other skills and be useful members of
society.

That has nothing to do with graduating high school. All they
have to do is show up and they will be socially promoted.

But some may be smart enough to not waste those 2 or 3 years
like that and prefer to start working in a real job instead.

If they are not willing to show up in school,
they probably won't show up for work.

Thats bull**** too when they choose to work instead
of just showing up at school to get the piece of paper.

That is usually the only thing necessary to keep an entry level
job too. In the construction business, a person from a labor
pool will be scooped up by a contractor and trained if they
show up and work for a couple of weeks in a row.

And that is just as true of those that dont bother with the last
couple of high school years who do what they are told at work.