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[quote]QUOTE: Unfortunately, things have changed quite a bit since '69 on the RR. I do agree that the RR should pay to train its own employees. [/quote] I'm not so sure I agree with that statement. I can't speak for where you live, but where I am there aren't too many jobs where a high school degree is enough to get hired. (good paying jobs - careers - anyway.) There is an increasing trend nowadays towards post secondary education. Just look at trade schools. Nowadays (in my parts) if you want to be a fireman they expect that you have already gone to school to train to be a fireman - they won't even look at you unless you already have the basic training - and who pays for that training? -- The student. If you want to be a police officer you have to pay for your own schooling - then they will hire you out of the class once you graduate - or you would have had a conditional offer of employment, pending graduation. If you want to be a plumber or carpenter, it's assumed that you are going to go and pay to go to some sort of trade school before you become an apprentice. Hell, if you want to be a taxi driver you have to go and take a "Taxi Host" program that you pay for, and get a special drivers license, which you have to pay for. Not to mention any careers such as doctors or lawyers that require many years of post seconday education. Doctors and lawyers aside, there aren't too many careers out there anymore where some sort of formal schooling is no longer required, why should the railway be any different?
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