Ignorance in education and experience is no excuse for a professional

Congress makes an officer and a gentleman or gentlewoman. Just who makes a hired human a media professional? … Or an educational professional?

It gets worse about education and experience. Most military and hunters try to recycle the brass casings to save money, and be environmentally responsible. Even trying to pull off a fake ambush in the Philippines during military training is often difficult because the locals are already giving away the ambush area in anticipation of recovering the brass from the blank rounds fired to make it seem real. Now that is experience. Lack of experience is some vice principal in a Catholic school (the last bastion of common sense one would think), kicking out a kid because he brought expended recycled brass casings to school in his backpack. Her logic was that if he had casings, he could have a gun. Now if that is not ignorance in education and experience, I am challenged to find a dumber example.

It seems to gets worse on having subject matter expertise. A recent cover of Time Magazine had a graphic with a Russian helicopter doing the pull out deed. The poor graphic artist using a symbol library of available icons, and the unprofessional reporter and producer, simply did not know how silly they looked to so many Americans that know better. And even today a Fox News TV article on Russian aviation reassertion of the old days of the bombers coming across the north pole used American video footage of the F-15 on and on and on (to make us think it was Russian planes). The ignorance and unprofessional display thereof was simply appalling to this person.

Just where is a common citizen to find the news? Not fake news, or news done in a hurry by those with no subject matter experience, just what is happening.

Those ambitious young people who want to sell a business plan that works in the media world might consider all this. They could make a lot of money when the reporter has experience. If fact, this idea also applies to educators of our young people. Teaching French in SC, or anywhere else, usually implies the teacher can speak French. In one case at least, the teacher has a teachers degree, but cannot speak a word of French, the job she was hired for.

Where’s the professionalism?