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Offline CC27

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Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« on: September 15, 2009, 12:06:48 PM »
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Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
   
Years ago in a job I had it was necessary, from time to time, for me to select people to be hired for the company. When there was a position that needed to be filled I'd head down to the Personnel Office where I'd be given current job applications for review. I'd pick the one's I liked and they'd arrange appointments for interviews and so on.

I had that job for about four years and in that time I never saw an application from anyone who indicated they were 'home schooled'. If I had seen that I would have passed it over faster than a 7th grade drop out.

How about you, would you do the same - reject home schooled applicants out of hand without further consideration? There are certainly examples of well educated children who were home schooled and others who are not but overall how do you feel about home schooling?

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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2009, 12:13:51 PM »
How tolerant.  :whatever:
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2009, 12:15:21 PM »
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olegramps  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-15-09 09:26 AM

60. Many home-schooled kids are provided with intense Christian indoctrination.
   
If I was an employer, I think that I would be careful that I was not hiring a person that could prove to be a serious disrupt liability. They may be very difficult to terminate even though they could be espousing a hard line Christian message that is offensive to most of my employees. Religion, like politics can be an explosive issue and I don't think that if I had a business to protect and loyal employees to consider that I would be very conducive to hiring a possible liability. I have watched several programs in which these kids and parents were interviewed and I found them to be extremely closed minded and very vocal in their beliefs saying things such as you are condemned to hell for eternity if you are not a born again Christian and accept Jesus as your saviour.

Oh, you mean like damn Muzzies praying 5 times a f'n day? Or is your anger and faux concern only about "Xtians"?  :bird:

This country, the greatest country on the FACE of the planet, was BUILT by Christians, jackass.
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2009, 12:22:16 PM »
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37. Of course! I would hire Ava in a heartbeat.
My niece only completed up to the 8th grade, but she's very good with networking, and one of the smartest people I know. She is also an athiest, and one of the kindest people I know.

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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2009, 12:48:09 PM »
How come the primitives can never spell "atheist" correctly?
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2009, 12:54:41 PM »
From my experience, home schoolers score higher on the standard tests and SAT's than do NEA tutored kids.

Why the hell wouldn't you hire them? I know, OMG they might believe in our Lord! Asshats!
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2009, 12:55:46 PM »
Hannah Giles was homeschooled ... just saying ...  :evillaugh:
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2009, 01:24:47 PM »
Since they don't have home colleges, we are mainly talking about entry-level jobs here, or at least ones where advanced education is not an issue, so the basic educational level necessary for this sort of job should be fairly apparent from the application itself.  I don't see it as a negative differentiator in getting to the interview stage.
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2009, 01:26:52 PM »
If any of those posters are actually responsible for hiring (yes, unlikely, I know) then they could have a nice little lawsuit on their hands if this thread ever made it to court.  :uhsure:
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2009, 01:33:37 PM »


  Thom.

     I'm pretty sure home-schoolers would be a little overqualified to flip burgers. Your paper hat is safe for now.

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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2009, 03:06:18 PM »
Compare and contrast.

Public school students:

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Home-schooled students:

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Yeah, I'll take the homeschoolers.
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2009, 03:26:39 PM »
Lots of squibble squabbling over there.  Paulsby stuck his head in the door and threw a bomb again.  Then, someone made a typical lefty libtard statement: 

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MNDemNY  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-15-09 08:29 AM
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11. "Home schoolers" are NOT a protected class. Feel free to dismiss them out of hand.

What an asshole. 
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2009, 04:25:04 PM »
Karin, you do not know how much I'd like to find out where said primitive lives in NY.
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2009, 04:28:39 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on September 15, 2009, 12:48:09 PM
How come the primitives can never spell "atheist" correctly?

they went to public school?
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2009, 04:53:20 PM »
I would hire a home-schooled mentally challenged person before I would hire a well edumucated DUmmy.

And as for "christian indoctrination", if I owned a cash business and needed to rely on employees not robbing me blind, I would hire all Mormons. I'm not a Mormon myself, but I know and/or am related to many. In my experience, I might have my hands full with them negotiating for higher pay up front, but I would not be worried about them stealing from me.
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2009, 06:14:27 PM »
While the Navy (and I'm sure I'll get plenty of backup on this from Thor and others associated with recruiting and the Nuclear Power Program) tends to frown upon "non-traditional" education in general and really frowns upon it for admission into such programs as Nuclear Power, that's not to say they don't qualify.

Quite the contrary.  One of the most brilliant instructors I had in Power School was ET1(SS) Meyers (yes, 21 years later I still remember the guy), my Reactor Principles instructor.  Most of the RP instructors were officers.  Basically he and his family "dropped off the grid" and from the time he was 9 until the age of 17 his family sailed around the world and he was schooled by his parents.

What did that teach me?  It ain't always about the paper, it's what you do with it. 
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Re: Would you hire a job applicant who was Home-schooled?
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2009, 11:27:36 PM »
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MNDemNY  (1000+ posts)      Tue Sep-15-09 08:29 AM
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11. "Home schoolers" are NOT a protected class.

No, but religious orientation is, which would make this:

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olegramps  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-15-09 09:26 AM

60. Many home-schooled kids are provided with intense Christian indoctrination.
   
If I was an employer, I think that I would be careful that I was not hiring a person that could prove to be a serious disrupt liability. They may be very difficult to terminate even though they could be espousing a hard line Christian message.

...against the law.  Sorry, gramps.  Better luck next time.
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