The net result of everyone going to college these days is that college standards have been lowered to be what "everyone" can handle. This means that colleges are now teaching things that are supposed to be taught in junior high. I took a look at my nephew's (college freshman) math assignment one day, it looked like something you or I would have done in seventh or eighth grade.
Well said.
That COLLEGES now have courses in remedial math and English .. because the students they admit need these courses ... is beyond depressing.
When my husband lived in Detroit in the ‘50s, they did not allow advancement from grad to grade unless the student passes his coursework. As a consequence, he had fellow students in Jr. High who were 18 and drove beer trucks after school.
My husband was smart, but slight of build in the 7th grade, and sometimes “picked one” by some of the toughies in school. One of the Polish beer truck drivers in my husband’s neighborhood exchanged bodyguard duties for my husband’s help in passing math.
Worked well! LOL.
Not a recent phenomenon. I lived in the Baton Rouge area in the mid-80s. At that time, a bit over 50% of LSU incoming freshman required remedial (read: high school) coursework. And this was at the state's "flagship" U.