Typical dimmocommie way of dealing with failure; eliminate the standards. How does that help our society? It just degenerates into a bunch of shambling drooling morons without any usable skills.
You don’t downgrade to stupid. If the kids are not college material, then it’s adios.
“We’re sending the majority of students down the college algebra road, which is really not necessary,” Archer said. “It’s not practical. It’s not really needed. And it’s not relevant for their fields.”So says a man, VP Academic Affairs, who clearly has not done the math. If he did, he'd realize that four years of gender studies plus low pay = bad math.
The students aren’t doing the homework. I’ve tutoured folks in algebra. If you work the problems I guarantee you’ll pass
Define “college algebra” please.
It is probably true that 70+% of young people being ripped off for college degrees they do not need lack the cognitive ability for advanced algebra (trigonometry and further along).
You can either say, “Colleges and Universities - dismiss the 70% of your “students” who do not belong in college and take the revenue cut”, or you can eliminate the requirement.
Since a lot of the college revenue is supporting otherwise unemployable people who have found favor with elected officials who would ALSO be unemployable if they had to find real jobs - algebra’s gotta go.
Students who can’t pass junior high or hgh school algebra shouldn’t be at a university. Unless the “Statistics” course referenced is considerably dumbed down version, how do students who can’t pass algebra manage calculus?
Just let the morons purchase a degree and quit pretending.
Why just drop the math requirement? If elite college scammers strip the reading requirements too they can get more “students” to sign up for loans to finance four years of sex and play - then renege on their ‘student loans’.
Rather than pay corrupt Universities that can’t teach but can indoctrinate, it makes more sense to give these ‘students’ smaller cheaper loans to so they can live at the beach (in cheap housing dorms) for four years. Maybe some foreign cheap country island...
The ultimate goal is to remove merit and capability as determining factors in succeeding in American life. “Studies” majors in college are a good example of this, as are corporate and government jobs focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Daniel Archer, vice president of academic affairs for the Kansas Board of Regents, said that algebra is not always necessary for many students. Only 20 percent of majors require higher-level math beyond algebra, KCUR reported.
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In a corrected statement, Daniel Archer, vice president of academic affairs for the Kansas Board of Regents, said history is not always necessary for many students. Only 20 percent of majors require history beyond the comic book level, KCUR reported. He also claimed that similar findings are found across all the disciplines, except sadomasochism, where discipline is key.
Well, kids haven’t been taught civics for decades and look at the result—people who haven’t the foggiest clue hoe our government works but they still vote.
So now kids who couldn’t balance a checkbook if their lives depended on it wont be taught math either.
What could possibly go wrong?
“And it’s not relevant for their fields.”
If that’s the case then drop all the BS social engineering woke garbage for STEM students.
"Come on kid, try this cigarette. Take a little sip of this whiskey. Take a puff on this joint...you'll like it."
Telling kids that some subjects are simply beyond their abilities is child abuse...bigotry of low expectations.
I just showed this to my high school sophomore, who took his pre-calculus mid-term today. He looked at the first line and said “That’s impossible.”
Basic algebra is simple and useful. Shouldn’t be difficult for most anyone to learn. The advanced stuff gets hairy, but basic algebra should be considered a minimum re4quirement for a civilized society.