{"id":112,"date":"2007-08-30T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T06:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-08-30T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T06:32:01","slug":"what-a-leadership-education-is-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/what-a-leadership-education-is-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"What a leadership education is worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/\/article\/20070830\/D8RBKV1O2.html\">this story<\/a>, we see where a good education can get you:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karsnia, 29, joined the airport police department just out of college in 2000 and was promoted to sergeant in 2005. Last year, he earned a master&#8217;s degree in criminal justice, leadership and education.<\/p>\n<p>He has arrested at least a dozen men in the airport&#8217;s bathroom for sending signals he believed were aimed at initiating sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, a police sergeant with a master&#8217;s degree and five years experience is sitting in an airport john all day waiting for someone to tap his toe?  Not exactly in the same league of boyhood dreams of being an astronaut, fireman, or cop&#8230;uh, at least not the kind of cop you see on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, with leadership training, one might decide it&#8217;s not enough to wait for the fly to come to the honey.  If you&#8217;re after gay men, how much does it take to reel them in?  I mean, if gay men are as promiscuous as hetero men (maybe a gay commenter can fill me in on this one), then entrapment can&#8217;t be very difficult.  I know that if it were illegal to initiate a heterosexual encounter in a public place, it wouldn&#8217;t take much for a cute female cop with &#8220;leadership&#8221; training to quickly net a horde of defendants.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t we have these people with master&#8217;s degrees selling hot dogs, or washing windows, or cleaning gum off the sidewalk, or anything that actually improves our quality of life rather than adds to a climate of fear and mistrust?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this story, we see where a good education can get you: Karsnia, 29, joined the airport police department just out of college in 2000 and was promoted to sergeant in 2005. Last year, he earned a master&#8217;s degree in criminal justice, leadership and education. He has arrested at least a dozen men in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invisible-trade-offs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}