Report: Screeners say instructors gave them test answers NEW YORK (AP) =97 Several baggage screeners at LaGuardia Airport said they= =20 were given answers to questions on a certification test moments before they= =20 took the exam, according to a published report. Four screeners interviewed= =20 separately by Newsday described similar scenarios from classes last month.= =20 The screeners said an instructor would teach for several hours, and then=20 read and answer several multiple-choice questions that were on the test=20 administered moments later. "It was pretty much set up so that you=20 shouldn't have any way to fail," said one screener, who asked not to be=20 named. Another screener told the newspaper that the instructor stayed in=20 the room during the test but that the questions "were the same questions he= =20 asked orally just before the test." Screeners were required to pass the=20 test to be certified in using machines that detect explosives in checked=20 baggage. All checked baggage was to be screened this way beginning Dec. 31= =20 under new federal law. Mark Hatfield, a spokesman for the federal=20 Transportation Security Administration, told Newsday he found the=20 screeners' statements "highly suspect." "That absolutely would not be=20 done," Hatfield said. "It's counter to training protocols and training=20 ethics and the nature of the program." He said instructors did give answers= =20 to a few questions that concerned material not covered in class or that may= =20 have had more than one viable answer. All screeners receive 40 hours of=20 classroom instruction and 60 hours of training when they are hired. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@escape.ca Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: www.pichemas.com TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************