Doc Holliday said:
RMF5630 said:
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Chipoople said:
Cobretti said:
There's hundreds of thousands of 7/8-year-olds that can't read a lick. Don't know their ABCs.
texas base level requirements to pass 3rd grade is all that plus multiply and basic division.
There is an alarming number of kids in public and private that cant do these things in 4th grade or higher
It is alarming how many things they do not know, civics, history, and basic vocabulary is horrible. It is unreal.
We have a society that runs on credentialism instead of tangible real talent. Education for children today is rubber stamped.
Even at the company I work for we have smarter and more capable people being passed up by those with an MBA or some stupid ass certification.
We live in an HR world now. It sucks.
My wife and I just had this conversation. We need to stop substituting education for experience. The number of attorneys that are being hired with no idea about the intricacies of the businesses they are working is scary. Being a bond attorney does not prepare you for running a company or being CEO of a public agency.
My wife says it is worse in the hospitals. She is a 35 year BSN nurse that spent 20 years bedside before moving up. She said the number of new nurses that are going for certifications and into "leadership" is sickening. They have no idea what they are managing and worse they never learn because they delegate the tough stuff. They also want to skip the nightshift, weekends and holidays, in other words they think that educational certifications take the place of work. Too many 20 something Practioners, Clinicians and Nurse Anesthetists with no actual experience being put in charge. Gonna be real scary in 10 years or so when the last of the old schools retire...