27 December 2023

DUMBING DOWN THE WHOLE WORLD IS NOT A SOLUTION

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-- "A new report has revealed that there were 19 separate occasions where planes nearly crashed into each other at airports in the United States during the first ten months of 2023. That number, the highest since 2016, comes as the Federal Aviation Administration continues to struggle in its quest to hire more air traffic controllers." --
Yeah... about that...
-- "As a June 2, 2015, Wall Street Journal article reported, the Federal Aviation Administration has 'quietly moved away from merit-based hiring in order to increase the number of women and minorities who staff airport control towers.'" --
But wait...  there's more...
-- "The Montreal Police recruits are the first batch of officers to go through the SPVM’s new training program, called 'Immersion MTL.'" --
WHO WANTS TO BE A GYM TEACHER?
-- "Lopez, WHO WEIGHS 400 LBS, was assigned to Dearborn Public Schools for his student teaching in winter 2022 and his doctor gave him an accommodation letter because of his diabetes, obesity, hypertension and asthma. It indicated he could not stand or walk for prolonged periods of time during his student teaching." --