Thanks Fauci and government.
I did two years of community college then transferred. The first term I got stuck in a Freshman dorm. I don’t believe any of my three suitemates made it beyond the second term.
That’s the part of the student loan crisis that’s never mentioned. Students who drop out still owe tens of thousands of dollars.
I suspect with the loss of learning due to St. Fauci (blessed be his name) and the other totalitarian covidiots is going to have multi-generational effects.
Grade inflation has actually been a problem for a while now.
I recall at least 20 years ago a former Valedictorian of a Kentucky County HS went to college and flunked out. She sued her school for not preparing her. Probably with some truth.
I do remember she specifically complained about extra credit, which was commonly awarded at her school. She wasn’t terribly bright but put forth the work to get that inflating her grades.
Colleges and universities of today are exactly like the high schools of years gone by.
But, they aren’t even that good....................
Everyone knows it’s racist to study and get good grades.
Colleges will just dumb down the courses eventually getting rid of those racist grades...
This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)
The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.
This has been a problem for decades. It's not a new thing.
Hell I believe universities have been engaged in dumbing down of students in order to educate students in DEI principles and racism as evident in pro-Palestinian protests and the quality of university officials as seen recently .
Retired urban public high school teacher here. Most teachers I worked with had high standards when it came to grading. Yes, there were exceptions, but most of us wanted our grades to mean something.
However, the pressure to inflate grades was enormous. It really accelerated around the year 2000. This pressure usually came from not from the students or the parents, but from the administration. Administrators get lots of good stuff when scores are high.
High scores + few failures = bonuses and promotions for administrators
The most common pressure was shaming. You’d be called into the principal’s office. “Mr. Jones, I noticed that only 10% of your algebra class received an ‘A’ grade. That’s really not acceptable. What can you do to improve this?”
Older teachers like me heard it all before. We kept on doing what we thought was right. Younger ones would be intimidated.
It made me buckle down and do my work. I graduated in 4 years with a BBA in accounting.
That horse has already left the barn a long time ago. Our public schools have been producing proud morons for 30 years now. In Los Angeles they haven’t produced a Graduating High School class with greater than 25% proficiency in almost 30 years.
We are living in the “Age of Incompetence”, at ALL levels of society.
I have no idea what the schools try to teach kids these days — aside from anal sex and hatred of white people.
I really feel bad for the young people. They have not been given a fair deal — poor parenting, poor schooling, COVID, social media — it’s a stacked deck against them and I don’t think that generation will ever recover. It’s a Lost Generation and that is going to have big ramifications for everyone of any age.
“[T]wo decades’ worth of academic improvements”—not.
The solution will be to dumb down the colleges even more.
Read later.
Ironically you could learn everything you need to know from watching YouTube videos, it’s there, but nobody takes advantage of it.
I would have loved to have had YT when I was in school. I would have aced every class, and only spent half the time studying to do it.
The "solution" in Los Angeles will probably be to lower the grade-level standards.
” In Los Angeles, where 73 percent of eleventh graders received an A, B, or C in math, only 19 percent actually met grade-level standards.”
******************************************
LA is hardly representative of the US as a whole. According to Wikipedia
“ Los Angeles Unified School District, the largest school district in California and second largest in the nation, is 73% Hispanic, 10% African American, 9% non-Hispanic Caucasian, 6% Asian, 0.5% Native American, and 0.4% Pacific Islander.”
The average IQ in Mexico is 88. Of course it is taboo to mention this.