We have the same situation here at SeaTac. Many of our screeners have qualifications that would put most any of the supervisors and above to shame. I truly feel that NCS Pearson was directed to hire individuals with less qualification in order to facilitate an easier training of the workforce by TSA. It is extremely difficult to retrain qualified and experienced individuals to do this job in the manner that TSA wants it done. The last thing that TSA wanted was supervisors and managers in positions that would allow them to counter or question policy as it was written. This is exactly why 6 of the major airport FSD's quit their positions in the beginning. They realized that we were not heading TSA in the right direction. Remember, we are a public relations force, not a security force. If any manager or above would like to counter this claim, I would welcome a comparison of qualifications between screeners and supervisors and above. It would tell volumns.