Originally Posted by Bart (Post 12229449)

Ever hear of crawl, walk, run?

Originally Posted by Bart (Post 12229574)

It's a training term used by the Army, especially in Special Forces, I'm not surprised that you're not familiar with it.

Originally Posted by Bart (Post 12229449)

Ever hear of crawl, walk, run?

Originally Posted by Bart (Post 12229641)

There's no excuse offered. Seems that you just want to quibble. Well, I'll lay it out for you in terms you can understand, cupcake. After an officer has certified for the checkpoint, the training continues. That officer is qualified to make independent judgments in accordance with the standards laid out by the Aviation Transportation Security Act passed by Congress in 2001. The challenge is to improve that officer's proficiency starting from a baseline. This is done a number of ways, and I can only speak about how I do it at my airport. However, in this specific example, from what I read, it seems as though this was the "crawl" phase for that particular officer, and subsequent tests should be more challenging.

A good trainer needs to be able to determine the trainee's level of proficiency and adjust from there. Otherwise, that trainer shouldn't be training people.

What surprises me is that no one has taken the perspective of applauding the effort to improve screener proficiency through training. The critics have come up with their own version of how they would do it, but I suspect that they've never been responsible for training a workforce. Or, if they have, then either they forgot it or are just taking pot shots at TSA because to admit a good effort would go against their silly anti-TSA agenda.

It's clear where you stand.