It starts well before college.
Hubby taught both in the Navy (20 yrs) and JR. College (20 yrs) Computer Science, electronics and Math. All the kids out of the Memphis City schools who had A/B’s in math had to go through his REMEDIAL MATH in order to take his classes. While the foreign and county students did not. They were just handed grades in a dumb down system specially for minorities.
Strange the minorities in the county schools didn’t need to be dumb’d down. You get what you teach. And all they do now is teach to the state test. We find it with our 13 yr old grandson’s math Common Core, teacher jumps around so much with this Common Core which comes out of the Marxist movement, that they don’t have enough time to learn even. Most of the teacher’s don’t even understand Common Core themselves. They are only a step ahead of their students in knowledge of it.
Hubby who is a Math Major of the old school says Common Core is crap.
The teachers in elementary schools do not have to know much about math or language arts. They have interactive videos on Smartboards for teaching. The teacher is a facilitator. It is disturbing.
My first grader has brought home some interesting math homework lately. I could not explain how to do one of the assignments. I showed my oldest sons who are 18 and 19. They couldn’t explain it either. It is algebra for first graders. After much frustration we completed the assignment. I wrote the teacher and told her how crazy I thought the method was. She said that she told her students to answer the questions however they could. She did not care if they completed the lesson as presented. It would have been nice to know that before my son scribbled all over the page and grew his pencil. Lol.
I have spoken with a lot of parents and teachers about Common Core lessons. It is unanimous. Everyone hates it!
Common Core is crap. My wife says so. She is a school teacher.She does special ed which is pretty much ignored by the system because everyone recognizes those kids as the dregs and doesn’t care what happens to them. She is thus able to actually teach real stuff to the ones capable of learning it. Some of her kids are the diagnosed ADDs and the like whose families refused to allow them to be drugged. After a year in Spec Ed many of them prove to be superior students but they are, of course, stuck with the SpecEd stigma that comes up if they apply to college or for many jobs.