And then wash out their first freshman semester.
Flunk them OUT!
If they still have the motivation, they can go to a CC to get up to speed and then come back.
They just need to load up on Brawndo. They’ll be fine.
Took the math placement test upon entrance, only to find out they didn't need to take any further math. Scored just within the highest bracket, higher than the students in the dorm who were majoring in engineering and the sciences. Those guys were pissed off because they had to take an extra quarter of Calculus.
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It’s really about admitting large numbers of Mexicans and Central Americans from LA area schools.
Actually getting into a UC (that isn’t Merced or Riverside) is nearly impossible now for any “STEM” major. A 4.4 GPA is typically the average at Cal, UCLA, Irvine and SD; a bit worse at SB, SC and Davis.
And that’s the problem. Class standing is the most important parameter: you can have a high GPA at your south LA high school and be in the top 9% of the class (what it takes to even be considered now) but the reality is that your standing probably just means you’re average or worse in a real high school not loaded up with Nahuatl speaking Indios.
So it’s the admissions process itself which puts these people there. And it was set up that way under pressure of the Mexican dominated legislature.
In a totally merit based world, it would end up being a bunch of schools with majority Han Chinese and a sizable Anglo-White group, with a mild number of likely Iberian Spanish Mexicans (”gueros”) and a vanishingly small number of Africans.
If your entrance requirements don’t require and aptitude for reading, writing, or arithmetic...
then don’t complain when the students can’t do the basics.
congrats, you got your group of diversity enrollments and continue to screw over white men.
personally, i think starting a company that ONLY hires straight white Christian men might be the solution.
no sexual harassment charges.
no racial discrimination charges.
no pronoun issues
no workplace attendance issues.
no theft.
high work ethic and motivated.
and the average IQ of the company would be higher than most.
toss in a strong encouragement towards family life and marital fidelity, and you’ve got a recipe for a happy workplace.
It was probably forty years ago that I occasion to run across a textbook for a high school class called Basic Math.
It was for high school students to get math credits who didn’t have the skills to take algebra.
There were some questions on figuring out how much carpeting was required and the cost and this was when flooring was sold primarily by square yards.
There were also some questions on how much wallpaper was required given the dimensions of a room.
Those questions required some skill with the four basic operations as well as common fractions were thrown in the questions as well.
I remember at the time I thought if kids could do those problems then they were probably proficient at “basic math”.
I think a lot of “A” math students from our rotten public schools would be challenged by that “basic” math book today.
Math was always tough for me. Topped out in Algebra 2 when Nixon was president. Majored in philosophy so no math required (symbolic logic sucked though).
Ironically, I ended up managing a lab at a defense contractor (mostly due to mechanical aptitude) and made a career of doing radiation effects tests. I could do the math by taking extra steps and memorizing hacks, but it worked.
You can figure out things,or fix stuff if you need to or want to badly enough.
Is math really all that important? Asks a career machinist & toolmaker... Lol.
Ah yeah, you couldn’t make a damn thing without math.
But think of the diversity