Relevant Points & Blurbs relating to whether a Superintendent can be terminated from his/her position (outside of tenure charges)…
Every year there is rise in demand for jobs, people are striving for better qualifications, and at the same time less jobs are becoming available. Go back 20 years and you will find that graduates were going straight into their job they had studied for 4 years to do, but that unwritten guarantee is no longer a given in today’s world of employment. The competition for jobs is gaining, over the past 10 years the percentage of employment-to-population ratio has dropped by 3%, because of the increase in population, without the increase in jobs.…
Currently in society, many individuals consider blue-collar workers unintelligent and uneducated. Blue-collar workers are seen in this perspective because of their hands on jobs in which many individuals assume that intelligence is not required. “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm, sleeve rolled right against biceps, but no brightness behind the eye, no image that links hand and brain.” (Rose 98) In Mike Rose’s text, he explains how being a blue-collar worker does not mean an individual is unintelligent. Rose shows how knowledge can be gained from many years of personal and work experiences. Mike Rose grew up in a cultural background of blue-collar workers who did not get a chance to obtain a formal education. This makes Rose…
1. Even eight years after the end of the Great Recession, that “good job” remains to be out of reach for many college graduates.…
As the rise of enrollment into university by the general population in the United States increases, there is still a need for blue-collar work. The stigma today that follows blue-collar work is a major prejudice held by intellectuals within the educational system. Intelligence is often only accredited to those who attend university and receive a degree, but this is not the case. There are different types of intelligence such as career oriented or technical intelligence and academic intelligence. Career or technical intelligence can be learned through apprenticeship, learned behavior, or trade school. On the other hand, those who further their education and receive a four-year degree are seen academically intelligent. In his essay, “Blue Collar…
In America most people generally think that blue collar workers are less intelligent than white collar or professional workers. Sadly this commonly held belief is just as prevalent today as it has ever been. In spite of the fact that there is evidence to the contrary this assumption still causes people to be stereotyped and treated differently.…
The term blue collar jobs covers an entirely range of jobs that perform manual labor, these jobs can be skilled or unskilled. Other places paid by blue collar staff is in construction, maintenance, engineering or other kind of work where manual physical labor is necessary. Blue collar staff are normally paid an hourly wage instead of white collar workers such as clerk jobs who are employed in an office environment who will be paid a regular monthly or yearly salary. So what kinds of jobs are available for blue collar workers? Drop take a look into four different jobs in the blue collar category.…
People will say all day long that there are plenty of relatively good paying jobs available that don’t require a college degree, and its true. According to US Labor Department projections, 63% of all new jobs that will be created between now and 2020 won’t require a college degree. Many jobs require just a high…
In the article Blue Collar Boomers Take Work Ethic to College Sander’s makes that argument that the baby boomers of our time are still eligible to work, and are very willing to try new ways of achieving the education to start different forms of work. Most of the baby boomer generation had gone straight to hard labor jobs to help bring home money for their families, and now that they are older the labor is straining on their bodies (Sanders 3). While they may be older, they are still capable of learning how to use new technology and expanding their minds (Sanders 27). Sanders discusses that college is no longer a place for young adults to attend once out of high school, but rather a place for anyone to receive high education in order to attain a job.…
A blue-collar worker is a working person who often performs manual labor. Most blue-collar jobs do not require a college degree. Most of the time when people think of blue-collar jobs they think about failure and when they think about white-collar jobs they think about success but that is not accurate. You do not have to go to college to be financially successful. For example, Patricia Park explains, “People don’t believe me when I tell them I make more money bagging groceries than I do lecturing on literacy techniques.” We often connect office occupations with a more advanced degree of education, classification, and salary. Moreover, we connect unskilled occupations with lower rankings. We most certainly do need high school graduates to go to college and become doctors and lawyers. However, not everyone can go to college to be that. There are other occupations that are needing workers that do not require a college degree that make just as much or even more than the ones that do go to college. Economic activity is slowing down because a large percentage of students are enrolling in college when there are jobs such as welders, machinists, electricians, and factory workers that are in demand for blue-collar…
2007 and Jan. 2010, jobs requiring college degrees grew by 187,000, while jobs requiring some college or an associate's degree fell by 1.75 million and jobs requiring a high school degree or less fell by 5.6 million. According to a June 2016 study, 99% of job growth (or 11.5 million of 11.6 million jobs) between 2010 and 2016 went to workers with associate's degrees, bachelor's degrees or graduate degrees. Based on economy and job projections calculated by Georgetown University, in 2018, approximately 63% of jobs will require some college education or a degree.(College Education)…
Source A disagrees: “The Case for Working with Your Hands” goes into detail about how college is not a necessity for everyone. The author states that “someone has to actually do things” like fixing cars, working on toilets, and construction. “You can’t hammer a nail over the internet. Nor can the Indians fix your car. Because they are in India.” However, everyone who goes to college does not necessarily work behind a computer screen. Getting a college education does not mean someone cannot work on cars or build a house. It means someone can get a better knowledge on how to do their job well. And consumers will be willing to pay more for their services, because…
Blue-collar jobs certainly hold room for workers with degrees who are skilled in the field. Louis Uchitelle, the author of…
A con to that is many recent college graduates are un- or underemployed. Meaning, they either have/had a job that has little work or none at all. 50% of college graduates under 25 years old have no job or a part-time job. The reason to that could be they are worried about their life and how they’re going to pay back loans. They could wake up and realise that the degree they got is not the one they wanted and feel bad about wasting their time and money. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates was 8.8% in Feb. 2013, down from 10.4% in 2010, but up from 5.7% in 2007 as said by (ProCon, 2017). They could be underemployed because many people that are working the job they’ve wanted have graduated earlier in life or even a year before them and got hired before.…
For college graduates there are many more job openings. Randy Tucker from the Journal News presents that, “Regardless of industry, the fastest growth is projected for occupations that require at least a master’s degree.” This means that as the job industry increases then the the new jobs popping up may require at least a master’s degree to be hired. In the College Power Bulletin it explains that, “ College graduates have half the unemployment rates of high school graduates and better job security.” This is saying that if a person is only a high school graduate and did not go to college they will have a higher risk of being unemployed but, a person who has graduated college will have a higher chance of being…