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San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Someone asked what the failure rate in the fire academy is. It's currently around 30%. That number is up from around 20% a few years ago. And... we made the academy easier. There are three final exams in the academy. One written and two practical. It used to be that a failure of any of the three was cause for dismissal. Now, as long as you maintain an overall 70%, you pass. The increase in failure rate is directly related to the decrease in applicants available to choose from. =============== 100% baloney. Applicants for all occupations and professions have seen increases in test scores= ALL. The position that training programs are declining for $200K per year jobs that do not require a Bachelor or graduate degree is public employee union nonsense That would be like saying the LSAT/GMAT/MCAT admit scores have gone down the last 20 years, where in reality they have gone up cosnistantly every single year. The notion that it is easier, not harder, than in the past for entry into any job is pure baloney.— January 9, 2009 9:10 a.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Johnny, do lawyers set fires or do they put out fires? Metaphorically, of course. There is a lot of debate on the point. ============================= Some lawyers, like Sam Spital, Bill Lerach and Patrick Frega most definitley start fires. But others who fight for a common cause to improve the lifes of those less fortunate certainly put out fires.— January 9, 2009 9:04 a.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
You're average is pretty close. Since 1980, 64 people have passed the Ca bar. ============ That's the number the state bar uses, I even question that number.— January 9, 2009 9:01 a.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
In the immortal words Dick the Butcher "THE FIRST THING WE DO, LET'S KILL ALL THE LAWYERS." ======================= Good old Bill Shakespear.........— January 8, 2009 5:24 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
How many lawyers have passed the bar without lawschool?? A few. ======= The only state that allows a person to take the bar exam wihout formal law school is CA, and I think the number who have passd in the last 20 years is less than 50, or 2-3 per year. 45 of 50 states requires an ABA law school education to even sit for a bar exam- CA should be one of those but it is not.— January 8, 2009 5:19 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
I'm still waiting for your answer on why there were only 200 applicants who made it to the interview. You keep talking about these thousands of people who would take the job... where are they? ================================= Are you saying only 200 applicants made it to the interview? If tht is the case then you need to advertise it more-if the reason is because the applicants lacked a certificate or training of some sort, then the FD should pay for that training using an employment contract.— January 8, 2009 5:16 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
I thought you were stating that all law grads were lawyers, did you not use all LS grads for the comparison to FF's????— January 8, 2009 4:37 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
Off the top of my head, the CSU Sacramento, the University of Maryland, Oklahoma State all offer degrees in fire service management specifically. Texas A&M and ASU both offer programs. CSU Long Beach offers a Masters in Emergency Management. George Washington offers a Master's in EMS Management. The Naval Postgradaute School in Monterrey offers a Master's in Homeland Security. =================== Very interesting. .. I would love to do a graduate degree in Emergency Management..... if I were rich and money was no issue. I would suspect that even with a Masters degree in Fire Science, or related degree, you would not get you into any FD because of the cronyism and nepotism in gov employment (not just FD, but at all levels, especially the higher paying jobs).— January 8, 2009 4:14 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
So while the percentage of lawers to FF is not what you may have expected, that extra percentage of people in law school who don't pass the bar does add something towards the discrepancy between law schools and those offering FF coursework. =================== The law school graduates who do not pass the bar are not lawyers. They are law school graduates. You are not a lawyer until you have passed a state bar (any bar), have cleared backgroud and been sworn into the bar. So even if you have passed the bar you are not a lawyer util you have cleared backgroud, and even then if you refuse the bar oath you are still not a lawyer.— January 8, 2009 4:08 p.m.
San Diego City Employees pension fund ailing
The city needs to use Mello-Roos and developer fees to provide for fire protection. ===================== Mello Roos bonds are by law dedicated to infrastruture and schools, they cannot be used to fund day to day government expenses, such as FF compensaton. Besides, even if we did use it for FF compensation, FF's would just keep getting more pay and beneit increases and we would eventually be back to square one. The problem is out of control expenses (read employee compensation), not lack of income-from Mello Roos, property tax, sales tax or any other tax scheme.— January 8, 2009 4:02 p.m.