by AM | Nov 25, 2023 | Aggregate
This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
‘Failed to prepare them for the 9-to-5 workplace’
There’s certainly no secret about the fact that American colleges and universities have gone far left.
Their faculty members only rarely include a conservative or a Republican. Their students learn that clearly.
Then instead of skills, logic and reason, the classes focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, race-baiting agendas, sex ideologies and more.
They tell members of women’s sports teams they must allow men to share their locker rooms and they often allow advocacy for violence, such as the pro-Hamas protests that have happened in recent weeks.
Neither is the result a secret.
“The higher ed system has worked itself out of a job,” according to CEO Andrew Crapuchettes of RedBalloon. “By losing focus on the mission of preparing their students for their career, they’ve become a non-factor, or even a negative factor, in helping job seekers find a job.”
A report in the Washington Times reveals that only 10% of small business owners in a RedBalloon survey said they want job candidates with college degrees.
The report charged, “The trend has perhaps become most visible in the tech industry, despite a lingering belief that completing a four-year degree entitles graduates to a high salary with flexible hours.”
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, said the company hires those with degrees, and those without.
Nearly half of those workers, those graduates looking for employment, said in the survey that college “failed to prepare them for the 9-to-5 workplace,” the report said.
They’ve turned to social media and on-the-job lessons to fill in the gaps.
The polling from RedBalloon, which was joined by PublicSquare in the work, said two-thirds of the owners of 905 small businesses say graduates simply don’t have the “relevant skills” for their companies.
The Times report noted the comments included: “We would hire someone with hands-on experience over someone that read about it in a book,” and “If you ain’t got the skills, you ain’t got a job.”
David Stuckenberg, chief of water conservation company Genesis Systems, described to the Times the shortcomings he’s seen.
Two recent grads applied for positions, and demanded $200,000 salaries because their professors told them that’s what to expect.
“The problem is many [recent graduates] have no underlying work ethic. They also have no experience,” he told the Times.
Other employers noted the lack of “confidence and maturity” among grads.
Melanie Collette, of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Project 21, told the Times said there also are problems with complacency, initiative, time management and accountability.
A college experience, she said “may foster a sense of independence and creativity but does not prepare students for the rigors of the workplace, where deadlines are non-negotiable and expectations are high.”
One analysis concluded it takes seven years to recover the skills gap left by a departing employee when a new worker is hired.
There’s no need for a college degree or a traditional 9-to-5 job to succeed in today’s economy, charged Sam Kain, a finance professor at Walsh College in Michigan.
Copyright 2023 WND News Center
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by AM | Nov 25, 2023 | Aggregate
Joe Biden was heckled in Massachusetts today.
The Israel haters tracked him down.
Notice when Joe Biden walks around there are no crowds?
81 million votes my a$$.
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by AM | Nov 25, 2023 | Aggregate
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Adam Andrzejewski
Real Clear Wire
In the name of building a parking lot, the Aldine Independent School District in Harris County, Texas tried to intimidate a 79-year-old man into selling his home, which his family has owned since 1916.
The school district is spending $50 million to redevelop its high school football stadium, which has parking lots on three sides of the one-acre property where Travis Upchurch’s house sits, Reason Magazine reported. The district has been trying to acquire Upchurch’s property to expand the parking.
When Upchurch indicated that he didn’t want to sell his property, the school district hired a third party to send a letter that the district would seize the property using eminent domain if he didn’t agree to a voluntary sale.
Tara Upchurch, Travis’ daughter, said the idea of forcing her father to relocate was terrifying. The family made repeated efforts to work out a deal with the district that would allow the senior citizen to live out his remaining years in the home, but the district seemed set on taking the property as soon as possible, Reason reported.
Then, all of a sudden, the district changed course, saying the property wasn’t necessary for the stadium project and that the district had been concerned about the liability issues of having someone live so close to its construction projects.
Finally, the school board voted to stop efforts to acquire the property.
While Tara Upchurch says that she’s grateful, she doesn’t trust that the school district won’t take up the eminent domain efforts again after the election.
“We don’t put anything past Aldine right now. We are nervous,” she told Reason.
Eminent domain shouldn’t be used to bully old men into leaving their house so that a high school stadium could have a larger parking lot.
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by AM | Nov 25, 2023 | Aggregate
What happened to “believe all women” and the “me too” movement?
It seems the standard applied against republicans who are accused, without evidence, is an entirely different standard than the one applied to Democrats.
As reported by the Gateway Pundit,
Andrew Cuomo’s former executive assistant, who accused him of sexual harassment and groping her in 2021, has filed a lawsuit against him under the Adult Survivors Act.
Brittany Commisso claims that Cuomo groped her in 2020 while he was still the governor of New York and retaliated against her when she rejected him and refused to perform sex acts.
Cuomo resigned in 2021 after being accused of sexual harassment by 11 women.
Commisso told CBS News in 2021 that Cuomo had closed the door to a room at the Governor’s Mansion that she was in and “put his hand up my blouse and cupped my breast over my bra.”
“I exactly remember looking down, seeing his hand, which is a large hand, thinking to myself, ‘Oh, my God. This is happening,’” she said. “It happened so quick, he didn’t say anything. When I stopped it, he just pulled away and walked away.”
Commisso’s claims were investigated and found to be credible, but prosecutors declined to charge Cuomo.
“While we found the complainant in this case cooperative and credible, after review of all the available evidence we have concluded that we cannot meet our burden at trial,” District Attorney David Soares said, according to a report from The Hill.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Cuomo is considering running for New York City mayor, as Mayor Eric Adams is becoming increasingly unpopular in the polls.
So again, what happened to the “me too” movement and “believe all women”, and where is the moral outrage?
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by AM | Nov 25, 2023 | Aggregate
Diversity is our strength.
Four overweight female police officers were unable to arrest one male shoplifter in Chicago.
The undated video of the four female officers attempting to make a retail theft arrest at 95th and Ashland was posted to X by crime news blogger 16th &17th District Chicago Police Scanner.
The suspect, Patrick Johnson-Henry, 32, resisted the officers for about 2 minutes before escaping on foot.
Patrick Johnson-Henry was finally taken into custody on the 9400 block of S. Justine and was charged with 4 counts of resisting police, 1 count of possession of a replica firearm, and 1 count of retail theft.
VIDEO:
Video of a retail theft arrest at 95th and Ashland.
The subject resists police and takes off running.
Patrick Johnson-Henry, 32, was taken into custody on the 9400 block of S Justine and was charged with 4 counts of resisting police, 1 count of possession of a replica firearm, 1… pic.twitter.com/x5PBaBTwxF
— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) November 23, 2023
“The more shocking part of this video is the defeated tone in the sergeant’s voice and his order to let a retail theft offender who just fought with police go,” the crime blogger said.
2210: “If we can’t contain him and it’s just a retail theft…let him go.”
Police Officer: “He has a cuff on him already.”
AUDIO:
The more shocking part of this video is the defeated tone in the sergeant’s voice & his order to let a retail theft offender who just fought with police go:
2210: If we can’t contain him & it’s just a retail theft…let him go.
PO: He has a cuff on him, squad.#ChicagoScanner https://t.co/l6WiGvsPSR pic.twitter.com/KPuuenanAn
— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) November 23, 2023
Retired Riverside police chief criticized the Chicago police department.
RT-This is what you get when police officers are fearful of being the next YouTube video, prosecuted, disciplined, and having the media doing an exposé on how they abused a citizen – which would be complete BS- @FoxNews @BGogoel @DanProft @MorningAnswer @WLSPMChicago @wlsam890 https://t.co/xr3J81Q2KD
— Chief Thomas Weitzel-Retired (@ChiefWeitzel) November 23, 2023
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