*drops eggs on the floor*

Whoops. Move along. MOVE ALONG.

OTOH maybe it will give them a chance to do some background checks, and evaluations of their employees rather than, you just get a job, because uncle Bob knows one of the supervisors at the local airport.

I went to some government classes for a certification back in the day. Pretty easy stuff for anyone with a legitimate college degree and a little background in math.
There were those too dumb or inept to pass, which limited their ability to get propmotions, or transfers.

"Academy"

Really? Don't they already abuse people enough; do they also have to abuse the English language?

Academy? Why didn't they just call it "University" like "Hamburger University."

Oh wait, maybe they take Hamburger University drop-outs.

Seriously though, it sounds like just another way to spend our tax dollars on useless crap. Spend the money to fly everyone into one central location instead of doing more cost-effective distance-learning with actual standards!

Ironically, this wasteful stupidity might make it easier for... motivated individuals... to erase the blight.

One slight benefit with this may be, the TSA would fly there and have to see what screening is like from the passengers perspective. I know, I'm grasping at straws.

When you've got an unlimited supply of funds, a massive inferiority complex, and an deep-seated need to assert control, it makes sens to centralize your training at an "academy."

Flying folks out to a training facility for a two-week training course that could, in reality, be handled by a traveling training squad or even local certified trainers isn't a cost concern when you can simply hit up the airlines and the traveling public for the funds in the name of national security.

Having an academy makes you a professional organization on a par with your "peers" in law enforcement.

Can't wait for a politician to list the TSA Academy as an educational credential (a Florida politician once listed a 'degree of Bachelor from Hamburger University').

Wonder what the class ring will look like.

Go through screening?? are you nuts? they'll just flash their TSA badge and get waved thru.

Use of the term 'Academy' is an attempt to big up their credentials, by using the same name as eg the FBI Academy, the several service Academies, and state and local police academies - all of which have actual admission standards.

I can't wait for some scruffy groper with unshined shoes and his tie knotted under his ear to tell me that he's an 'Academy man'.

llater,

llamas

Can't help but wonder where this "academy" is going to be. How much you want to bet it's going to be in some prime vacation area of the country?

Welcome to the TSA Academy:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/17/467057310/body-scanners-and-explosives-tsa-starts-academy-for-screeners

This is the TSA Academy, established just last month. It's part of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, located at a sprawling former air base in Glynco, Ga. Some 96 federal agencies train here.

AND

The TSA Academy is aimed at driving those points home and instilling a sense of professionalism among TSA officers. [Peter] Neffenger [TSA Administrator] is enthusiastic about the opportunity the academy presents. "[Students] do real-world, scenario-based training here, spend time in the classroom [and] come out to the lab. It's very exciting for me to connect them to people who are doing the mission all across the country in a way we've never had a chance to before."

One of the TSA Academy instructors, Shawn Weeks Freeman, says today's training is a lot different from when she joined the agency in 2004, not long after its founding. "When I joined it was a laptop in a hotel room ... and then very much on the job training. Thats kinda how I learned."

And with that inadequate training as a base, Weeks Freeman is now training others.

FLETC in Glynco, Georgia:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Federal+Law+Enforcement+Training+Center/@31.2307033,-81.5065559,13.75z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0xfc0ecba3df411dc7