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It's bad enough when post office jobs are handed out based on skin color, but it's hundred times worse when judges and generals and air traffic controllers get their job based on skin color.
Controversy surrounds hiring of air traffic controllers - Fox 2 News Headlines
May 14, 2014 8:49 PM MDT
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -
A dramatic change in the FAA's hiring practices for air traffic controllers has grounded the career plans of a lot of highly qualified applicants, and there are some concerns it could put the flying public at risk.
For the past 24 years, most controllers got their training at one of 36 universities across the country with an air traffic controller program. Lewis University in Romeoville is one of them. But earlier this year, the FAA opened up the applicant pool to anyone off the street -- no schooling necessary.
Chris Thurlby is a 2012 high honors graduate from Lewis, with $85,000 dollars in student loans, but very little chance of getting a job.
He and other would be controllers no longer take the AT-SAT, an aptitude test of aviation skills, but instead must take an online biographical questionnaire. It's part of what is widely viewed as an affirmative action push, and one the Air Traffic Controllers Union calls flawed.
That test disqualified and frustrated Mark Jacobs, a 4.0 student who scored a 98 on the AT-SAT.
They say the biographical questionnaire is meant to determine your suitability based on an aviation background or education or work experience, all of which I have, therefore you are not qualified, said Jacobs.