No. It means that students graduating high schools are functionally illiterate and can't place into ENG-101 and so mathematically challenged they can't place into a simple college algebra course. Without a basic knowledge of readin', writin', and 'rithemtic they can't succeed in any of the other courses.
By the way, not all college professors are liberal wingnuts.
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They can found in business, math, engineering, and the **hard** sciences.
I take it you don’t work in women’s studies?
By the way, not all college professors are liberal wingnuts.
Especially the geologists :-), though we do need to take a stick to the environmental scientists that get spawned in the fires of our creation...
(Where I went to school, if you couldn't hack the math and physics, folks dropped from a Geology BS down to an "Environmental Sciences" BA).