Posted on 03/19/2019 12:00:30 AM PDT by Osage Orange
Good for her!!
How many 18 yr old kids...can spell algebra?
I don't think so....Where do you get that?
I remember that, too.
Organic chem. Famously failing pre-med students who needed 4.0s.
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.
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.
from the fact that the only group of women who consistently vote GOP are married ones
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.)
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.
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.
Gotta keep your priorities straight.
Damn straight.
[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.
Most H.S. students can’t spell “twelfth”....
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.
Of course not. But they know the words to their favorite rap song. And what the whole hip-hop “community” is up to.
I questioned the conservative statement....
But whatever....
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.
LOL! I can just see it!
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.
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