Re: [2013-2015] Affirmative Action Lands In The Air Traffic Control Tower

On 01 Feb 2025, "Leroy N. Soetoro"
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> https://manhattan.institute/article/affirmative-action-lands-in-the-air
> - traffic-control-tower
> 
> The Obama administration forces the Federal Aviation Administration to
> move away from merit-based hiring criteria.
> 
> When a plane starts its final descent, are the passengers more
> concerned about the competence or about the skin color of the
> air-traffic controllers on the ground who will help the pilot land
> safely? The answer may be obvious to readers, if not to the Obama
> administration. 
> 
> A recently completed six-month investigation by Fox Business Network
> found that the Federal Aviation Administration has quietly moved away
> from merit-based hiring criteria in order to increase the number of
> women and minorities who staff airport control towers. The changes
> come despite the fact that the FAA's own internal reports describe the
> evidence for changing the hiring process as “weak.”
> 
> Until 2013, the FAA gave hiring preference to controller applicants
> who earned a degree from one of its Collegiate Training Initiative
> schools and scored high enough on an eight-hour screening test called
> the Air Traffic Selection and Training exam, or AT-SAT, which measures
> cognitive skills. The Obama administration, however, determined that
> the process excluded too many from minority groups. In May 2013, the
> FAA's civil rights administrator issued “barrier analyses” of the
> agency's employment procedures, which recommended “revising how the
> AT-SAT is used in establishing best-qualified lists.”
> 
> By the start of last year, the FAA was using a biographical
> questionnaire (BQ) to initially vet potential hires. The
> questions—“How many sports did you play in high school?”, “What has
> been the major cause of your failures?”—seem designed to elicit
> stories of personal disadvantage or family hardship rather than
> determine success on the job. 
> 
> “The FAA says it created the BQ to promote diversity among its
> workforce,” reported Adam Shapiro of Fox Business. “All air traffic
> control applicants are required to take it. Those who pass are deemed
> eligible and those who fail are ruled ineligible.”
> 
> The FAA would not tell Fox Business what the biographical test is
> trying to measure and did not return my phone calls. But an FAA report
> released in October, “Using Biodata to Select Air Traffic
> Controllers,” concluded that the AT-SAT exam, not the biographical
> questionnaire, is a much better predictor of performance. “The biodata
> items assessed did little to improve our ability to select applicants
> most likely” to complete training successfully, said the study. “If
> biodata are to be used to select controllers, additional research is
> required to identify those biodata items that will add to the
> prediction of controller training performance over and above the
> effect of AT-SAT score.” 
> 
> Given that training an air-traffic controller can cost more than
> $400,000 on average, selecting candidates based on who is likely to
> complete the process makes economic sense. Hans Bader, a legal scholar
> at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes that the FAA's focus
> on diversity is not only inefficient but may be a violation of the
> Civil Rights Act. “The FAA's jettisoning of merit-based hiring
> criteria violated the Supreme Court's Ricci decision, [Ricci v.
> DeStefano, 2009] which limits agencies' ability to discard hiring
> criteria in order to increase minority representation, especially when
> there is no strong evidence that the criteria are not job-related,”
> said Mr. Bader. 
> 
> After the FAA changed its screening process in 2014, thousands of 
> applicants who were already in the pipeline—people who had obtained an
> FAA-accredited degree, taken the AT-SAT exam and had been designated 
> “well-qualified” to become air-traffic controllers—were told by the 
> government that they would have to start the process again. “But this 
> time, when they applied for a job, their college degrees and previous 
> military experience would mean nothing,” reported Fox Business. “They 
> would now compete with thousands of people the agency calls ‘off the 
> street hires'; anyone who wants to, can walk in off the street without
> any previous training and apply for an air traffic control job.”
> 
> In other words, the current policy is to deliberately favor
> less-qualified applicants over more qualified applicants in the name
> of obtaining the “right” racial and gender mix among air-traffic
> controllers. Advocates of “diversity” insist that discounting
> objective measures of ability and competence is harmless, but history
> shows that it can be deadly. 
> 
> In 1973 Patrick Chavis was one of five black students admitted to a 
> medical school in California through an affirmative-action program 
> designed to increase minority enrollment. Allan Bakke, a white
> applicant who was rejected despite having much higher test scores than
> the black applicants, sued. In 1978 the Supreme Court struck down the
> program, but Chavis would go on to earn his medical degree and become
> a poster child for advocates of racial preferences. In 1995 he made
> the cover of the New York Times magazine. Sen. Ted Kennedy called him
> “the perfect example” of how affirmative action worked. In 1998 the
> California medical board revoked Chavis's medical license, noting his
> “inability to perform some of the most basic duties required of a
> physician” after several patients in his care died or were severely
> injured. 
> 
> Admitting poorly qualified students to medical school increases the
> number of incompetent doctors. A selection process for air-traffic
> controllers that favors race and gender over ability is no less
> dangerous. 
> 
> This piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
> 
> This piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal

Obama needs to be hung for treason, buried, dug up and hung again.