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So, now you'll be paying $100k for no education at all.

Rather, the taxpayer will because you're too stupid to pass basic high school math and still can't convert fractions to decimal.

Many tech companies don't even ask about degrees anymore. They know they are worthless for many disciplines.

Oh, and you're taking up a seat in Algebra/Math 101...a PAYING seat...and can't even do long division.

In eight years you'll be providing services to some rich white people. Hopefully those are not medical services.

1 posted on 08/04/2017 7:12:55 AM PDT by Mariner
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Public schools didn’t do their job on the way to graduating you nitwits so don’t think we’ll do ours or take up the slack! So pay us what you owe and submit to our PC and cultural Marxism!


2 posted on 08/04/2017 7:15:05 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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If the colleges say they are unaffordable, why don’t they reduce the tuition?


3 posted on 08/04/2017 7:16:20 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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“Nearly 3,300 freshmen who entered in fall 2015 did not complete their remedial classes and were ineligible to return to school.”

Follow the dollar$. Keep ‘em eligible so the $$$ comes in from tuition, housing, community sales taxes.

And keep the left wing faculty and admin employed at all co$t$


4 posted on 08/04/2017 7:18:00 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg'sB)
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More of the same, just more open.

Colleges weren’t about whether you knew the material even in the seventies and probably long before that.


5 posted on 08/04/2017 7:18:06 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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it’s easy to improve graduation rates if you just pass anyone who gives you a check.


6 posted on 08/04/2017 7:19:01 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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So unpreparedness will essentially count for credit. All that matters is turning out worthless degrees.


7 posted on 08/04/2017 7:20:03 AM PDT by rey
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If your IQ is less than 120, you’re too stupid to receive a government backed student loan.

This entire problem could be solved by getting government out of the student loan business.

Make your case to Wells Fargo or B of A. Let them make a business decision on whether they believe you’ll be able to pay it back.

This will cut in half, at least, the number of freshmen each year.


8 posted on 08/04/2017 7:21:09 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Everyone passes everyone gets a diploma.


9 posted on 08/04/2017 7:22:58 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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Should just take a page from Harvard University.

Give everybody an ‘A’.


10 posted on 08/04/2017 7:23:10 AM PDT by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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Nearly 3,300 freshmen who entered in fall 2015 did not complete their remedial classes and were ineligible to return to school.

In other words...

They were too stupid and lazy to handle even the easiest courses...

So they quit.

Now they work at McDs and demand "a living wage".

11 posted on 08/04/2017 7:23:33 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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Just wow...

but they might receive additional tutoring or take the course at a slower pace, stretched over multiple semesters. A summer program for incoming freshmen who need extra preparation will be redesigned to count for credit.

CSU also plans to eliminate the placement tests it used to determine students’ readiness for college-level work. Skills assessments will instead be based on high school grades and standardized test scores.


12 posted on 08/04/2017 7:25:15 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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"Chancellor Timothy White directed the 23-campus system to overhaul by fall 2018 its curriculum for students found to be unprepared for college-level English and math. About 39 percent of CSU’s incoming freshmen, or 25,000 students, are required to take remedial classes for no credit before they can begin their general education."

Lower the standards!

Lower the standards again!

And again!

Lower the standards until the degree is completely worthless!

This is part of the decay/decadence of Western Civilization.

13 posted on 08/04/2017 7:25:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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The greatest incentive to learn English composition before entering the University of California system was the dreaded Subject A test. Fail it, and you were required to take the remedial course in Subject A, at your expense, and time, until you passed. It was the scourge of the Engineering students. Very effective, and yes, it wasn't FAIR.
14 posted on 08/04/2017 7:26:05 AM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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Haha…they got out of high school without learning to read and now they can have a college degree and remain illiterate. What a farce “education” has become in the USA! No wonder businesses are fighting to keep their pipeline to India flowing with people who are better prepared.


16 posted on 08/04/2017 7:35:24 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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I gots a coleege dagre cuz i can rite my name and count on my fingres.


18 posted on 08/04/2017 7:47:23 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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Soon it will be , “Can I has a Degree?” answer , “Sure ,here you Dr Smith , Brain Surgeon”


19 posted on 08/04/2017 7:51:57 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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More dumbing down. So, colleges are taking money and printing degrees that mean nothing.

Wanna bet you won’t graduate unless you pass Reconstructing Feminism 101, Overcoming the Patriarchy 102, Gender Continuum Studies 101, Learning to Think Trans 201, Welcoming Islam 103?


21 posted on 08/04/2017 8:03:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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“It really invites first-generation students to question whether or not they really belong in college”

If they can't meet minimum standards, they DON'T belong in college!
22 posted on 08/04/2017 8:17:49 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Grammar is racist.
Spelling is racist.
Punctuation is racist.
Math is racist.
Knowledge is racist.
25 posted on 08/04/2017 8:20:37 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Since sme of the “remedial” classes deal with study habits, using libraries and other research entities, which many of these student s they want to push through with leftist indoctrination, I can see where this is a good think............./s


27 posted on 08/04/2017 8:50:23 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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