Posted on 03/27/2025 9:55:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just how bad is our education system in America?
Harvard University is being forced to launch a remedial math course for its students.
The university is spinning this is only being done to make up for gaps in entering students’ algebra skills that it blames on lockdowns. Sure lockdowns were an unforgivable mistake.
But the bigger question: how are students getting into America’s most elite college without knowing algebra, which is taught starting in junior high? The elite school has a 3.4% acceptance rate for applicants.
What does this tell us about the math skills of the other 96% of high school grads?
I'll comment (respectfully) on any topic I can add value to, to anyone.
The no-contact rule is meant to prevent disrespectful trolling, and I don't do that any more, to anyone.
Well except maybe joesbucks. lol.
You are a rude, disturbed human.
Well, that is a perfect example of the 'disrespectful trolling' comments I spoke about earlier. I no longer engage in those....perhaps you can learn something from me.
I'll only respond to your comments about the topic at hand. I don't do 'personalities' any more.
You may have the last word.
They dropping it in water.
Now you're bashing on Fuzzie's pal cuckie. 
You do but don’t know it.
Thats not a rule
‘ Well, that is a perfect example of the ‘disrespectful trolling’ comments
I no longer engage in those....perhaps you can learn something from me.‘
Yeah. The emo kitty picture, not disrespectful or trolling.
Disturbed you are.
Your “safe space kitty” meme cinched his panties up high and tight, in a nice wad...
Nope. Y’all can scratch each others eyes out for all I care.
LOL I Yale man and a Harvard men were attending the same medical lecture. During a break the Yale man notices the Harvard doesn’t wash his hands after he’s done.
The Yale man says, I say old boy at Yale they teaches us to was our hands after using the toilet’’’.
And the Harvard man says ‘’Yes. And at Harvard they teach us not to pee on our hands;;.
This speeds things up. It could have been coded like this:
B = A + 1;
A = B;
This would be prettier algebraically but a waste of cpu.
From 1961...
“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
OMG. I didn’t know it was this bad. Employment stats by sector for grads from Harvard’s Kennedy School..
Over half go into the public/non-profit sector.
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Um, it’s the Kennedy School “of Government”.
Heard that decades and decades ago in the UK, except of course with Oxford/Cambridge.
Spoken by a Yale man, of course.
Nobody’s perfect. ;-)
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