According to Marshall, real-life soldiers are doing well if they exceed a 70 per cent accuracy rate. The two teenage shooters were not particularly familiar with guns. These games replicate the simulators used to train soldiers to kill. But all is not doom and gloom at these conferences. Not a bad thing to remember next time you have a fight, er, difference of opinion, with someone at home, school or work.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
He said 85 per cent of parents and students, if asked, see university in their future plans. Yet the latest research says only 17 per cent of the job market will need university grads. By far the greatest number of jobs will be in the vocational, trades and technical areas. B.C. Still, whatever their future plans, we need to keep our kids in school. Another Ladyman statistic says that young people, who don't graduate from high school are 10-fold more likely to end up in jail or on welfare.