Posted on 03/19/2019 12:00:30 AM PDT by Osage Orange
It’s not that long ago, the end of the ‘70s, when I was in college with either plagiarism or cheating an automatic cause for expulsion.
Now there doesn’t begin to be anything like that standard left, in reality at least, at any school I am familiar with. I believe parents have filed lawsuits to hasten the change.
“Heck people should have learned this in algebra”
What percentage of US high school students are capable of being taught algebra?
At best the Left wants the schools to produce some Betas, but mostly Gammas and Deltas.
another good one
UCF Professor Richard Quinn accuses class of cheating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbzJTTDO9f4
Typing on a phone while driving?
I am a lawyer who flunked high school chemistry and had to have a tutor over Christmas break. I hated chemistry and I hate moles to this day. Some people have a mind for hard science, some people think straight in the realm of law.
It always amazes me how people brag about being stupid in math and science. Like that makes you somehow noble or something.
I don’t brag about it, I admit it. I have a kid who is brilliant in math, but he has a different brain than I do.
Nobody who is unqualified should pass a class. But when an undergrad class physics class has the same failure rate as BUD/S, year in, year out, that’s nonsense.
In their whole lives no one ever made demands on them and when they got to HIS class, they didn’t want to hear it.
You nailed it there. I graduated from college as an engineer, but had to take the mandatory English and other classes. In my first English class, the professor asked, "Who here has not read the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn books?" I reluctantly raised my hand. Her reply was that it was too bad, since I had missed one of the great joys of childhood.
In my next English class, I was required to write an essay on, get this, "the role of the Mississippi River as a God", in the Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn series. Now, I'm convinced to this day, that Twain had no plan to write about "the role of the Mississippi river as a God". He planned to write something to make some money. He wrote about the Mississippi since he grew up along its shore.
The motives and analyses of century later professors are simply their own motives, not Twain's. It is not possible to guess what the professor was actually looking for. I graduated, though, so I must have gotten an acceptable grade. It was probably a B, since I had absolutely no interest in studying hard for an English class. The other thing I remember from the class was that we had to read a William Faulkner book. Faulkner was absolute the worst author I have ever read. He used no punctuation, no capital letters, and no logical order. The professor praised his "stream of consciousness". I deplored his gibberish.
“, as they brought in marginally qualified instructors,”
Think the funniest thing was the failure rate for people “training to be teachers”..i.e. Ed.Majors..So many ‘flunked’ here in Flori-DUH? that they merely lowered the standards to become a teacher...And that was many many moons ago.....
You get kids who are reading at the 3rd grade level and you're supposed to bring them up to grade level in one hour a week, in batches of 33. You cannot discipline them, they don't do homework, and their parents will reward them with electronic toys no matter how badly they do.
Only 25% or so are functional. The rest are non-starters fit only for manual labor, but if you fail 75% of your students, your principal will be on you like a duck on a June bug, and may even just "administratively" change your grades anyway. Especially if parents come in having a fit. The goal is to pass as many kids as you can.
By college age, the attitude is baked in with the pie.
I’m sorry, I meant to say “bring them up to grade level in one hour a day, five days a week.” (sigh) Time to make the donuts.
My daughter discovered she had a knack for chemistry in college, getting her BSN from George Washington University with a 3.4 GPA.
Of course, she wasn’t some kid fresh out of high school. She enlisted in the Army and served for six years so she could use her GI Bill, became a licensed Paramedic, earned two Associate degrees (AAS in Emergency Medical Services and AS in Biology), transferring her credits to GWU.
She’s now a CEN working at a Level I Trauma Center.
What percentage of US high school students are capable of being taught algebra?
Sounds like this question would use algebra to provide an answer.
Jim, when I graduated HS in 1960 maybe only 15-20% went on to college and most of the guys were jocks on scholarships, while the girls went for degrees in Education.
The vast majority of grads went to military service or blue collar jobs, while girls went into retail or clerical jobs. Many married at 17-18 and toughed it out.
I agree with you that most HS grads of today would not even qualify to get into college under the old standards for entrance. ...The HS courses have become a joke and the teachers just pass them to the next grade, instead of failing them and making them re-take the courses in Summer school.
I’ll stop now, before I run my mouth to excess...
Teachers become fed up with some students who have behavior issues. They pass those students so they don’t have to deal with them again the next year. If I were a teacher, I would probably have the same mindset. Maybe boot camp for elementary children would straighten some out.
Can’t be on the teachers alone. Classrooms are micromanaged very heavily today. Teachers teach in the way they are mandated too. Time to take a hard look at board offices and policies.
spelling and typing not quite your thing though?
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