Airport Bag Screeners Given Test Answers

[newyawker99]

What a joke!! :argh:

The written tests given potential baggage screeners at airports never asked applicants to show they could identify dangerous objects inside luggage.

In addition, screeners hired by the government to check baggage for bombs were given most of the answers to the tests, according to an internal investigation by the Homeland Security Department.

"Not a single question called up on a student to demonstrate a sufficient mastery of the class content to achieve the purpose of the training," the agency's acting inspector general, Clark Kent Ervin, wrote to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

During classroom training, screeners were given the questions in open-book quizzes and then the answers. The course ended with a closed-book examination of 25 questions. Nineteen of the questions on the final test were identical or virtually identical and three were similar to those on the quizzes, Ervin said.


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[Mika]

1. No joke

Its almost like an attack is being invited. Bring em on?

[Drifter]

2. Welcome to ...

McDonalds, I need to look through your bag.

A single qualifed, well paid screener will be 10 times more effective than a room full of unqualified, underpaid screeners.

As soon as they figure this out, we will actually realize real increased security.

Cheers
Drifter

[demsrule4life]

3. I don't know what kind of people they hired for these

jobs. What I do know is myself and four other retired cops/retired military friends applied, went though their entire process of getting hired and then never heard back back from them. I guess they didn't want to hire anybody good.

[dofus]

4. Many years ago

when I was a ticket agent at National Airport in Washington DC, and we agents all had to pass a test on hazardous materials, we were given the training and then the answers to the test.

[denverbill]

5. My favorite question.

A second question asked why it is important to screen bags for improvised explosive devices (IEDs). A possible answer: "The ticking timer could worry other passengers." The right answer: "IEDs can cause loss of lives, property and aircraft."