Convicted Felon's NASA Pick Never Even Graduated High School. OH, wait;; He has a GED. We're good!

[634-5789]

Trump’s NASA Pick Never Even Graduated High School ~
Yeah, you read that right.....Fatass McTraitor’s handpicked nominee to run NASA—you know, the agency that literally launches rockets into space—is a guy who never graduated from high school. Not college. High school. HIGH SCHOOL!
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From Wiki:
He attended Wilson Elementary School in Westfield and William Annin Middle School in Bernards Township. While a student at Ridge High School, he launched a computer services business with a friend. At age 16, he left school to work full-time, later earning a GED. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide Campus, in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Isaacman#Early_life

[GreenWave]

1. Malice in Blunderland strikes again.

[malaise]

2. Hope he consults the queen of

A1 Sauce, the Secretary of miseducation😀

[Easterncedar]

3. He has a bachelor's degree

[Irish_Dem]

5. A bachelor's degree is still very undereducated for this position.

[intheflow]

16. Yes, but it's a far cry from the image conjured by the OP's headline.

“He never graduated from high school!” I pictured a wholly illiterate person elevated from airport luggage handler to leading NASA. I also have my GED, and went on to get an Associates, Bachelors, and two Masters degrees. The fact he only has a Bachelor’s from a crappy school is more than enough to disqualify him.

[Irish_Dem]

17. I agree.

[Norbert]

30. I do too

[634-5789]

32. THIS. Hell, I have a bachelor's degree, point me to the rockets!

[Orrex]

9. From Trump University, perhaps?

I can't bring myself to check.

[lapfog_1]

14. Is Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University a good school?

one reply:
This is an overpriced De-Vry University. De-Vry of aviation. Your EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY degree is just as useless as a degree from University of Cebu (in Cebu Philippines). I have a friend with an EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY Bachelors and Masters degree driving a truck while I after getting my bachelor's I am stuck with an absolutely lousy United Airlines Chicago O'Hare airport loading bags Now it's $300,000 in tuition if you transfer from community college and $500,000 while so many community college credits don't transfer that cause people to retake classes for no reason. Nickel and dimed at every angle.

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Apparently a pilot training academy with aspirations to teach aeronautics.

Full disclosure... I worked at NASA for 10 years as a Chief Scientist. Almost everyone I worked with had a PhD in a related field ( math, computer science, aeronautics, etc ) from places like MIT, Caltech, Case-Western, RIT, Harvard, Penn, etc ). When selecting people to interview, I normally would shit can any resume from "fly by night" universities and many "lesser known" state colleges.

I doubt this person can even describe Navier-Stokes equations. But that could be prejudice on my part.

This is going to be a long 4 years... very long. I wonder how long it will be until we get ourselves of the cancer we just contracted.

[Aviation Pro]

33. I disagree

ERAU grad here. I'm pretty successful in my field.

[sop]

4. The "He's no rocket scientist" jokes write themselves.

[Historic NY]

29. Neither is Elon

[mwmisses4289]

6. Please, people, stop knocking those who have a GED.

Earning that, for many, means they are trying to turn their life around. Also, according to that article, that GED was good enough to get him into a college where he earned a bachelors.

[edhopper]

18. Online diploma mill

What is being knocked is his qualifications to run NASA. Not his efforts to get a GED.

[RoeVWade]

7. His views and character worry me more with Trump picks. Is it just another sabotage the institution pick IOW.

I never know what the hell Trump is picking certain people for.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. There are plenty of other things to go after him about.

[delisen]

10. Nothing wrong with obtaining a GED

Please look at the whole person and overall education and qualifications for a position.

[unweird]

11. The whole person?

More like the hole of a person. To be part of this fiasco administration says enough about this person.

[Jacson6]

12. So what? I had to take my GED and then went onto college.

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He also has a bachelor degree.



EDIT:
I'm not supporting the RWer, but if we want to criticize people we should do it on their policies and not on their education credentials.

[Tickle]

25. Ditto NT

[JT45242]

13. Embry riddle was once super respected in aviation circles

He does have a college degree even if he went the GED route.

Should likely have an advanced degree in something to run NASA

[intheflow]

15. I'm sure this guy is a nightmare but I'm offended by your clickbait BS.

He’s a college graduate. I also have a GED - and two masters degrees. I’m sure this guy is a fucking nightmare on wheels and absolutely under-qualified, but there’s a HUGE difference between “never graduated from high school” and “got his GED and went on to get bachelor’s in aeronautics”. Your disdain for my hard work - and everyone who went on to overcome the lack of a high school diploma - is duly noted.

[Kid Berwyn]

19. Better credentials than Gorka's.

Not saying much, though, as Dear Leader himse’f doesn’t have a working brain and doesn’t like people who do.

[madinmaryland]

23. #SoftBitchSeb. Is he still around?

Getting laughed at on twitter??

[republianmushroom]

20. A very natural bonding between trump and Isaacman.

[mike_c]

21. with all due respect....

Lots of successful people didn't finish high school. I dropped out at fifteen, then sat for a GED exam in my twenties. Ultimately went on to college and grad degrees, and now I'm retired from a career in academic research and teaching. I'm not the only member of my family to travel that route, either. High school was a waste of time.

[634-5789]

24. Is that what 99.9% of others did, and...you running NASA? I have questions.

[mikelewis]

27. I agree... I don't think paying for knowledge is necessary...

Especially now. You can honestly Google and YouTube Computer Science... and not Candyland Computer Science... real stuff. Programming, architecture... and not one person in the industry gives a shit about your education. They care about your Github page.

That being said... I am with the rest of them... the guy is probably a kook. But that's guilt by association.

[Comrade Citizen]

22. GED was the only stepping stone available

Due to hardships, I aged out (turned 21) of high school before graduating and was kicked out. I had to get a GED which was a stepping stone to Community College and an Associates, followed by University for 2 Bachelors and 2 Masters.

[madaboutharry]

26. There were a number of ways to discuss his lack of qualifications.

The headline of your OP is an outright misrepresentation of facts.

He is indeed not qualified and his credentials wholly inadequate, but stating he didn’t even graduate high school is clickbait.

The GED is legally the equivalent of a high school diploma.

[snowybirdie]

28. I can absolutely get

Posters here getting upset about the denigration of GED degrees in general. They are equal to any pursuit of educational opportunities. People work very hard to obtain them as well. I think though, the question asked is a person qualified to head NASA, with an educational level below a doctorate? His college degree appears to be of the online type that most employers would not accept for responsibilities at this level. That coupled with no experience in the field makes this man totally unqualified.

[Aviation Pro]

36. I used to work with the head of ERAU Worldwide

And I assure you, it is a fairly rigorous program.

[DFW]

31. The embarrassments just keep piling up

A guy I know used to run NASA while Biden was in office. Former astronaut himself, former US Senator. A somewhat different caliber of credentials, wouldn’t you say?

[WarGamer]

34. Stuff like this is silly.

This dude has:


BS from Embry-Riddle

Jet Fighter pilot 7000+ hours

Commercial Astronaut 7+ days in space, 2 missions...




So we're criticizing him because he doesn't add a 2 year post grad program?

Maybe in Literature? That'd make him qualified?

That's stupid.

[Aviation Pro]

35. Going to cut this guy a little slack

Number one, he is an Airline Transport Pilot with five type ratings (mostly Citation jets) and a slew of experimental aircraft ratings as well (military, including the MIG 29); on top of that he is a certificated flight instructor, which means he put the work in. Second reason, most of the time when folks hear NASA they only think of the Space side and forget that the second letter in the acronym is Aeronautics. This covers a range of different initiatives from development of supersonic wing technology, which would mitigate sonic booms during transition, to new air traffic control technology. Given his background, he is well suited to oversee these types of programs.

That being said, he's still a Motherfucker Krasnov appointee so slack is given but very little.