What does "Killing the President" have to do with an Intro to US Government?

[Deuce 1]

http://www.ktvu.com/news/2325459/detail.html

I'm betting these students haven't been taught the legislative process, but have been taught fear and paranoia.

What value is a scared, paranoid person with an associate's degree to an employer?

Geez-Louise.

[PhillyKev 0]

Dude...you'd better change the subject line...


...shhh...I hear something

[TheAnvil 0]

Dear Lord, but the Lefties do have such a strong presence on college campuses.....

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[FliegendeWolf 0]

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What value is a scared, paranoid person with an associate's degree to an employer?

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the question, but it seems to me that your question assumes that the value of what one learns in school is limited only to employment skills. I think the value of education runs significantly deeper than providing job skills.

A One that Isn't Cold is Scarcely a One at All

[PhillyKev 0]

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I think the value of education runs significantly deeper than providing job skills.

How un-American. Don't you know you're supposed to be a productive slave to big corporations, never question their judgment, and thank them daily for providing you with a job? Anything else is subversive, commie, treason.

[diverdriver 7]

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http://www.ktvu.com/news/2325459/detail.html

I'm betting these students haven't been taught the legislative process, but have been taught fear and paranoia.

What value is a scared, paranoid person with an associate's degree to an employer?

Geez-Louise.

uh yah....we'll need the dark helicopters here in a bit......I've got a few more for you.

[Deuce 1]

I really value your argument. It's oversimplified in Maslow's heirarchy, but you gotta feed yourself first, then get self-actualized.

I'm bummed that I had to fire a very, very bright person, with great technical ability, who didn't get that you have to do what your boss tells you when your boss is paying you to do something.

I'm frustrated that I'm getting employees with great self-esteem, but the inability to properly fill out a time card.

There's something missing out there, maybe that assignment should have been given in a sociology class, or a psychology class, and maybe it even has merit on it's own.

But when I review a transcript of somebody I'm hiring, I expect that "Intro to US Government" is going to produce a graduate who understands the basics of the Constitution, the Congress, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court, and their interaction.

"So, can you tell me how a bill becomes law?"

"Uh, no. But you know, if you type something about killing the president and sent it to a elected guy at the Smithsonian Institution, you get to actually meet real-live men in black?"

That's all.

[FliegendeWolf 0]

I see what you're saying. It's not so much the existence of such an exercise as it is your concern that the exercise will be the only thing the students would be walking away from the class with. That makes sense to me.

A One that Isn't Cold is Scarcely a One at All

[oldnewbie 0]

Have you not heard!!!! School should have nothing to do with the real world!!! You think that people should really learn something that might be of use in a job??? lol (only kidding here)

I'm a school teacher (auto shop/real world), and I can assure you that many teachers feel that they are preparing a student for more education. Not WORK!!!

Depending on the class, there may be a good reason for this as an assignment!! Psy and sociology come to mind.