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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on December 11, 2014, 09:34:16 PM
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FDNY drops physical test requirement amid low female hiring rate
The Fire Department has stopped requiring probationary firefighters to pass a job-related physical-skills test before getting hired — a move that critics derided as a lowering of standards.
The move by first-year Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, which allows probies to fail components of the Functional Skills Training test but still graduate from the Fire Academy, comes amid criticism of the department’s low hiring rate of women.
New York Post (http://nypost.com/2014/12/11/fdny-drops-physical-test-requirement-amid-low-female-hiring-rate/)
These clowns won't be happy until their ridiculous ideas get someone killed.
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Affirmative action...Yay!
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I do know of situations where faculty at gateway military and first-responder schools like this, and even higher education for professional degrees, have put out the word that "If you're X, you will not pass this class, no matter what you do," but that's extremely difficult to get away with these days, and all those incidents happened quite awhile ago.
Does sound a lot like this one is more a product of just lowering the bar for the few, rather than raising it for them.
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New York Post (http://nypost.com/2014/12/11/fdny-drops-physical-test-requirement-amid-low-female-hiring-rate/)
These clowns won't be happy until their ridiculous ideas get someone killed.
Yes, but they feel good about the change they are making and isn't that more important than saving lives? [\DUmmyspeak]
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From the article:
After the hearing, Nigro said passing the skills tests had only been required of the two most recent classes — and not for any of the 15 years before.
Based on this, sounds like sour grapes. Women can't hack the test (95% of men; 57% of women pass it) so because there are only 44 women in the 10,500-man department, they're going to make DAMN SURE that more women are hired.
PC at its finest. :whatever:
Oh, and when a person dies because a woman couldn't do what was needed, let's see who gets thrown under the bus. My money is on that El-Tee or Captain who was responsible for "training" this woman. :loser:
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Substitute "FDNY" with "School of Infantry" and you'll get an idea of how the Libs and DACOWITS will finally get their dream of female Infantry officers.
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Substitute "FDNY" with "School of Infantry" and you'll get an idea of how the Libs and DACOWITS will finally get their dream of female Infantry officers.
They are shoving them through west point. Almost every example of a female in a high vis slot was a social promotion and not earned. There were a few who could carry their load, but not many.
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Didn't they lower the written test score requirements a couple of years ago so more minorities could pass it?