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College professor flunks the entire class
YouTube ^ | April 29...2015 | Galveston Professor Irwin Horwitz

Posted on 03/19/2019 12:00:30 AM PDT by Osage Orange

Gotta listen....


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: flunkgreatbs; irwinhorwitz
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To: COBOL2Java
Very good!!

Good for her!!

61 posted on 03/19/2019 8:20:12 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: CatOwner

How many 18 yr old kids...can spell algebra?


62 posted on 03/19/2019 8:24:25 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: thoughtomator
But parents in general are more likely to be conservative

I don't think so....Where do you get that?

63 posted on 03/19/2019 8:27:44 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: PIF

I remember that, too.

Organic chem. Famously failing pre-med students who needed 4.0s.


64 posted on 03/19/2019 8:28:03 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Osage Orange
I know a Doctor of Medicine....that couldn't change a light bulb..but he's a great Doctor.

My life long friend {over 60 years} is a retired surgeon and spent two tours in Viet Nam as a surgeon attached to the Marines, but has no interest in puttering with other tools or little household jobs.

Like your pal, he probably needs to hire someone to change a light bulb. Different strokes.

65 posted on 03/19/2019 8:40:32 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke all mooselimb terrorists, today.)
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To: exDemMom

Exactly. All anyone needs to do to do well in chem is work the problems at the end of each chapter. Unfortunately most students would rather blow a doobie than actually do homework and learn something. Chem is rational and logical just like Math. Anyone can excel in either if one is willing to take the time to do the work. I have zero sympathy for the lazy.


66 posted on 03/19/2019 8:40:52 AM PDT by publana
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To: Osage Orange

from the fact that the only group of women who consistently vote GOP are married ones


67 posted on 03/19/2019 8:44:41 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: pepsionice

My husband tutors math to kids in our church. The stories about the teachers are stunning.

They do their homework in a computer program, and they just need the right answer. DH showed one girl HOW to arrive at the right answer. When the girl did well, teacher asked why she did so well and the girl explained the process — how to “work it out”. Teacher god mad, and the girl has been on her sh!t list ever since. (Teacher doesn’t know how to work it out, we expect.)


68 posted on 03/19/2019 8:53:38 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Jim Noble

Last years NEAP exam showed that 75% of graduating seniors are not proficient in math. On the NEAP test proficient means a C or better. Only 37% tested proficient or better in reading. For many students a High School Diploma is a joke. Many of the students graduating High School have not even mastered what used to be considered a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic.


69 posted on 03/19/2019 8:59:30 AM PDT by Do the math (Do the math./)
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To: Do the math
Many of the students graduating High School have not even mastered what used to be considered a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic

Right, and the question is, why?

I say, it's the students.

In 1941, 25% of white 18 year olds completed twelfth grade. That's probably the "natural" HS graduation rate.

By that I mean that, left to their own devices, 25% of white 18 year olds have the ability and or the interest to complete 4 years of English, 3 years of history, math through trig, biology, chemistry, physics, and become semi-fluent in Latin or a modern foreign language.

Trying to go much beyond this entails massive spending, massive fraud to conceal the "failures" of the teachers/schools to accomplish the impossible.

And, of course, the stakes are hugely increased by the attempt to send most of the 75% who don't even belong in twelfth grade on to college.

70 posted on 03/19/2019 9:25:16 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Osage Orange

Gotta keep your priorities straight.


71 posted on 03/19/2019 9:31:54 AM PDT by beef (Caution: Potential Sarcasm - Process Accordingly)
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To: beef
Ha!!

Damn straight.

72 posted on 03/19/2019 9:34:45 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: deport

[Lack of proof reading one’s work.
Today’s society of rush along.]

I do that all the time. Zip right through preview, often.

Oops.


73 posted on 03/19/2019 9:35:06 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Jim Noble

Most H.S. students can’t spell “twelfth”....


74 posted on 03/19/2019 9:37:10 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: BipolarBob

I’m not crazy about HFCS. And yes I think it’s worse than regular sugar.

The problem with “Zero” is that it’s diet - and diet usually means additives even worse than HFCS.

As I suspected - Coke Zero has aspartame. Which I think is garbage.

A nasty ingredient that tastes like paint thinner.

Coke really blew it by making their Vanilla Orange Coke a “Zero”.

It was $4.88 for a 12 pack at Wal-Mart. I saw the display but backed off when I saw it was a “Zero” product. A few days later, I noticed none of the cases seemed to be gone. Too high priced and nobody wants that aspartame diet garbage anyways. Especially those looking for flavor.

Next time I saw it, within a week or two, Wal*Mart dropped it to $3.50 from $4.88. A huge drop in a very short period of time. That’s because it ain’t selling.

This is all on Coke though. Stupid marketing.


75 posted on 03/19/2019 9:41:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Osage Orange

Of course not. But they know the words to their favorite rap song. And what the whole hip-hop “community” is up to.


76 posted on 03/19/2019 9:42:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: thoughtomator
Here's what you wrote....But parents in general are more likely to be conservative

I questioned the conservative statement....

But whatever....

77 posted on 03/19/2019 9:43:21 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Osage Orange

I work at a college library. This semester one of the professors complained that she had to eliminate half the required readings on her syllabus because “the students don’t even bother to read them.” I have watched a terrible dumbing down.


78 posted on 03/19/2019 3:27:30 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: AppyPappy
The professor asked “If it was so hard, how did someone make a 98?”. Everyone turned and looked at me because I was wearing a tie.

LOL! I can just see it!

79 posted on 03/19/2019 5:05:10 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Black Agnes
It was an easy A.

Or at least not too hard. However, I really had to work at Quantitative Analysis. I spent 20-30 hours/week on that damn class, and my clothes had little holes where drops of acid or base had burned through.

But I got my A, which seemed important at the time.

80 posted on 03/21/2019 7:26:24 PM PDT by TChad
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