Drugged Grads for Hire
by Miki Saxon
Note that the following questions refer to high achievers and not the educationally disenfranchised.
Do you like to hire from top schools?
When filling entry-level positions do you rely on GPAs for insight to candidates’ performance?
Would you hire a candidate who abused prescription drugs?
What will you do when the first two are dependent on the third?
At high schools across the United States, pressure over grades and competition for college admissions are encouraging students to abuse prescription stimulants, according to interviews with students, parents and doctors. Pills that have been a staple in some college and graduate school circles are going from rare to routine in many academically competitive high schools…
Kids are smart and many of them find it easy to con the family doctor in to writing a prescription, which turns them into entrepreneurs as they keep some and sell the rest to their schoolmates.
How will these kids perform when cramming isn’t an option and success depends on more than correct answers on a test?
How will these kids build sustainable, long-term careers, let alone companies?
How will they raise their children?
What will their effect be on America’s ability to compete globally?
What are you doing about it?
Flickr image credit: The Javorac
