To be fair, if these kids are entering colleges with a 3.0 GPA or higher... it’s not the kid’s fault. Once again, it is the school’s fault.
Our state will no longer let you use scholarship money for remedial classes plus you will get less money if you don’t take advanced math before you graduate from high school.
Is he kidding? What rigors?
Look, less than 25% of the white population are qualified, are capable, of baccalaureate work.
If only 1/3 of entrants need remedial help, the freshman standard must already be so low as to be a farce.
The scam that college has become is one of the factors that is destroying our country.
A good way to address this problem would be with software, not classroom instruction. This is because “remedial” learning is very individualized. So such software needs to do only two things:
1) Diagnose what knowledge it is they are missing. This is the more time consuming part, because it has to survey a lot of learning, to find the gaps in it.
2) Corrective drills on the gaps and insuring it is integrated into the subject area.
Classroom remedial learning is almost entirely wasted, because it is either re-teaching what is known, taking away from teaching about what isn’t; or trying to figure out what one student doesn’t know at a time, while ignoring everyone else.
3.0 averages? Really?
Obviously....The teachers and principals are LIARS! They LIED to their students and their parents. The other teachers deliberately chose to do NOTHING! And....It is likely happening in your county's government indoctrination centers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2724017/posts
The numbers are higher thatn 50 percent in some Georgia public schools. Above is a thread from last week about the same topic.
Judging by the people I worked with entering the workforce from about 1985, major remedial attention should’ve been provided decades ago. They had (have) their dorky degrees in H.R. Management, Law, Engineering, etc., but couldn’t compose a gramatically correct sentence; never figured out the difference between “you and me” and “you and I”; subject-verb agreement, etc.
Spouse is PhD in Physics, and he’s complained since we met in 1995 that the new PhDs have no writing skills. The corps hire the new kids, but assign proposal writing, etc., to the ones who learned the basics in junior high, and high, schools, i.e., “the old guys”.
“Report: Over a third of students entering college need remedial help”
Almost all of the ones that go, should seek psychiatric help.
College shouldn’t be for everyone as it has turned serious fields of study into McMajors. Real scholars cant excel in their fields because they have to instead worry about competing with slackers that universities cater to by lowering standards in order to keep the money train going.
I hated college, and never felt that it was necessary for much of what I was taught. Many classes, like an astronomy course I took, was a rehash of all the stuff I learned from my weekly visits to the library as a child. Easy A....that cost me lots of money, but I had to take the class for credit.
I rather be like all the great Americans of the past that taught themselves their trades. People like Franklin, Edison, Wright, and Fulton.
They didnt need college to do great things.