gone are the days of an entrance exam See Spot, see Spot run...
Posted on 09/15/2017 7:12:19 AM PDT by EinNYC
Thousands of city public-school graduates falter as college freshmen, and have to empty their pockets because of it, according to a new report.
Ill-prepared for collegiate course work, more than 21,000 city graduates end up shelling out an average of $3,000 annually for remedial classes, according to a study by pro-charter advocacy group StudentFirstNY.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
>>Unprepared NYC graduates spend $63M a year on remedial classes<<
They must be doing well if each can shell out $63 million for remedial classes. If I had that kind of money I probably would not spend a lot of time in remedial classes.
(ah, the irony that the “journalist” and “editor” need remedial edumacatiom).
And colleges don’t give a rats if they can read or not. It’s not about academics, it’s about engineering their lives and because the “students” are nothing more than profit centers.
Deliberately dumbing down education to the level of the lowest performing “students” isn’t working out so well. But, I’m sure these “students” had very high GPA’s in high school, and were outstanding in all the various “social justice” issues and skills.
What does NYC pay per pupil per year in education?
$15K?
For what results?
Every time I’m waited on by a “hip” millennial at checkout, I can attest to their ineptness at the most basic math every time I give them odd change in coin to even out my cash change received. This even confuses them BEFORE they enter the cash tendered in their dumbed down cash register. I have to tell them what they owe me. Unimaginable.
I say let them all be poor AND stupid. Its a free country.
Even seasoned citizen cashiers are occasionally taken aback when you hand them $6.11 for a $5.86 charge. It’s for your own good, trust me. “Just see what the cash register says.”
I’m talking about giving them $20.01 for a $14.56 order. Can they not count back?
It’s better to slide the $6 then after they ring it up, then slide the 11 cents. They really get dumbfounded. The last time I did that at Wendy]s the girl said I hate when people do that and called the manager over.
“Veteran teachers” of the sort you describe started leaving in droves 40 years ago. They are a species that has been virtually extinct in government schools for over two decades. The problem is government schools. The model is the mistake, and they need to be shut down. They are institutionalized child abuse.
“Veteran teachers” of the sort you describe started leaving in droves 40 years ago. They are a species that has been virtually extinct in government schools for over two decades. The problem is government schools. The model is the mistake, and they need to be shut down. They are institutionalized child abuse.
Community College is the nrw high school.
New...
I always hand them the change first. Give them the 11 cents, then the single, then the five. Some will try to hand it back, but just say, “See what the cash register says.” With a very little practice rounding out change to nearest coin - quarter, dime or nickel - is not really particularly hard, it become a habit. When you don’t have the pennies, round to the next whateveryouhaveinyourpocketthatworks. If it’s $7.34, and the only change you have is dime, hand them the dime, and then the ten. They will be startled. Startled. Sometimes it sinks in.
Many government schools are a pathetic joke on the taxpayers, the parents and the students. Of course the purported overpaid and under-worked “educators” are doing all they can “for the children”. I guess it is not enough.
My brother, and Micheal Savage both happend to work briefly as math teachers at a junior high school in Jamaica, Queens. It’s not [only] the teachers, it’s the completely fubar system.
If as you say - the only 'requirement' is to be able to fog up a mirror - maybe 'graduation rates' are higher.
Better - - Taxpayers in New York could save a bundle of money if they let 'kids' stay home and when they turn 18 herd them over to a gymnasium and hand them each a 'degree'... No building expenses, teacher salaries, custodial staff etc...
A lot of unqualified kids are going to college & getting in debt. Colleges don’t care. They want the money.
gone are the days of an entrance exam See Spot, see Spot run...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.