On 08/10/2020 05:15 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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On 8/9/2020 11:52 PM, %% wrote:


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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.

Of course no high school graduate ever did that.

I know of plenty that have.

There is no excuse in the past few decades not to finish school.

It isn't an excuse, its a fact that plenty have enough
of a clue to work out that what is taught in the last
few years of high school will be no use in the sort
of work that they will choose to do, most obviously
with those who are self employed, who chose to
work in trades and in retail.

It is not 1940 any more where you quit to help the family after 8th
grade.

But there are still plenty who dont need what
is taught in the last couple of years of high
school for the sort of work that plenty still
do and do until they choose to retire.

OK, you are right. Every 15 year old knows what he needs and does
not need to be a success in life.

Some do have enough of a clue to have noticed that
no one they know adult wise uses any of what is taught
in the last couple of years of high school, particularly
with those I listed, or has an adult point that out to them.

If you drop out of high school it is usually because you don't have
the mental fortitude to stick with anything but you will be a success
on YouTube.

Usually is irrelevant to what is true of some that dont
complete high school. In fact it may well be that those
with enough of a clue to have noticed that what is taught
in the last couple of years of high school are likely to be
a more useful employee than those who can't work that out.

My experience differs from your.

Yours isnt experience, its mindless one eyed bigotry.

Fine, my bigotry has served well compared to yours. I like people with
character and fortitude and pay them fairly. Dropouts have proved to be
dropouts and don't show up, come in late, don't follow simple
instructions as well as their graduated peers.

Never ran into any college educated slackers?