Posted on 03/19/2019 12:00:30 AM PDT by Osage Orange
Gotta listen....
I think that is what is going on in schools today........
It's a business....they don't care if you cannot make the grade..they want the MONEY!!!!...
So you need to pass them!!!
Around 2012 (while working in the DC region), I had an associate that I worked with. This guy’s wife was desperately trying to get their kid lined up with a premium university in the region. While he fitted into every requirement....they mandated that he take a English and math placement test, prior to signing up. After the placement test, they had a chat with the mom.
The kid did badly on both tests, and their requirements mandated that he had to take a high-school level math and English course in that first semester (having zero credit toward his degree path). I asked my associate the cost of this, and it was near $1,200 for the two courses. Course, I asked as well...wasn’t this all material that the kid should have covered and learned in the last two years of high school? Yes was the answer.
The problem here...started a couple of decades ago in high schools, as they brought in marginally qualified instructors, and failed to hold standards. When those kids arrived at colleges....the college was forced to lower standards, or flunk out the unsuitable kids. For everyone (high schools and colleges), it’s all about money.
The orof talked about break wven analysis? Heck people should have learned this in algebra 1 just shows how much of a sick koke colleges have become
For everyone (high schools and colleges), it’s all about money.
Huh?
Irvin Horwitz rocks the house...hell..he just rocked the whole college!!
Somewhere a Dean just fainted. :)
School backing the students.
Horwitz says there’s an “honor” system for cheating, but if you cheat nothing happens. So everyone cheats! :)
Irvin better buy a gun!
He may look nerdy but he’s got more guts than me!!! :)
He risked everything doing this.
Ditto all that....my FRiend
[sick koke]
I was gonna try the new Coke Vanilla Orange but they had to make it a Zero.
Had they used regular Coke Vanilla and added Orange I probably would have tried it.
But Zero? - that made it a sick Coke, IMHO. I didn’t try it, though.
The prof talked about break even analysis? Heck, people should have learned this in algebra. It just shows how much of a sick joke colleges have become.
Not really new. Back when I was in college in the 60s chemistry profs had no problem - some classes were lucky and one or 2 people passed. Organic and solid Chem are very hard.
Bump for later...
A friend told me the only way to pass Organic Chemistry was to memorize the book. He was right. 50% of our tests was a “road map”. That’ where you start with coal, limestone and air to make A. Then a sequence of reactions gets you to Z. If you don’t know all the reactions and their products, you’ll never get to Z.
Where are the parents willing to cheat their kids into college, when it was time to make sure their high school preparation was adequate to get them in?
That’s one thing that really blows my mind - how is it that parents put up with far-left indoctrination replacing education in school after school in state after state for year after year after year?
Not really. They have distinct, logical rules which you only need to apply in order to solve problems. What is hard is trying to guess what an English teacher wants, when the rules (if they exist) are malleable and obscure, and no two teachers have the same grading standards.
Of course, I got a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, and would never consider getting even a BA in English.
I could substitute any soft subject here and still be accurate.
Just like medicine is a business and not a profession and mission. Too many doctors and hospitals don’t care if you get well, they just want the money.
“parents put up with far-left indoctrination”
Bingo! Kids come out of high school unable to read or write, but they can put a condom on a banana blindfolded.
The problem is "You can't learn organic chemistry emotionally. " Our children today are not taught to use their logical minds.
Rather than gather facts and then make a decision, they make a decision and search for the facts to support it.
Do you believe that if the instructors were more than marginally qualified, that more US high school students would be capable of college level work?
Or, even better, what percentage of US high school graduates do you believe are intellectually capable of college level work, assuming the best instruction and optimized funding?
I say it's less than 10%.
Our national delusion is that it's 100%, or close to it.
As long as that's the case, you will have a system founded on fraud and susceptible to bribery and many other forms of corruption.
I think the point and purpose to college anymore is the hard sciences. Math, chemistry, physics, engineering. Liberal arts has degraded to the point of just being a piece of paper that has lost a lot of value.
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