Posted on 05/16/2019 8:59:02 AM PDT by fwdude
America’s new academic standards are failing our students. Despite what official transcripts say, I’m concerned many graduates did not earn their diploma.
As a seasoned high school teacher and college professor pondering my 14th graduation ceremony, I couldn’t help wondering how many students around the country will graduate with a high school or college degree, but not an education.
It’s no secret we have a terrible illiteracy problem. But what I address here goes beyond illiteracy and marches smack through the front door of an academic house of cards. Inside, my colleagues and I share deep concerns about failing students who graduate only because of failing academic standards.
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Chances are high that a publik skool deegree is about as valuable as a Dorkbama Statement.
Ask AOC.
Young skulls full of mush.
I once taught a college math class as an Adjunct Professor. Some of my grades were raised. Many of the students were employees, whose tuition was being paid by their employers. They had to get a grade of at least a B in order to get their employer to pay the tuition. So, some of my C’s were raised to B’s.
I would bet one hundred dollars against fifty that any randomly selected recent recipient of an undergraduate degree can NOT pass my eighth grade final in English or History. I think I would become a rich man if I could find some takers.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha.
Educated? Give me a break.
https://www.registrar.iastate.edu/students/div-ip-guide/usdiversity-courses
The following courses from the current catalog are approved for the U.S. Diversity Requirement.
Required diversity courses at colleges. NOTE IT IS A FEDERAL REQUIREMENT!
Of course, BU has been known to award plagiarists PhDs too.
“Ask AOC.”
Beat me to it.
Boston U is permanently clowned.
They are educated even worse (which is saying a lot) than we were, so they will need more continuing education to correct all the indoctrination they have received.
A degree in Black studies can be very valuable for those planning on a lifetime career of victimology, race-swindling and race-hustling.
“Required diversity courses at colleges. NOTE IT IS A FEDERAL REQUIREMENT!”
Any good company will subtract 1 GPA point for each diversity course taken by the unfortunate student.
More than two diversity courses constitutes proof that graduate has had most - if not all - of his logic circuits fused and is therefore worthy of only jobs not requiring any intelligence - such as HR or (heh) a mandatory diversity position.
How is that ethical, if even legal?
I worked as a math/business tutor for a remedial program at my state university while attending as a grad student. The complete lack of almost any skills I found in many students was horrible. I’m talking the inability to do simple arithmetic. And these were supposed high school grads.
I taught at a public school for over 30 years. The best and brightest students are still wonderful and earn their diplomas. The middle group are fine and likely would have graduated high school ‘back in the day’. But the ever-growing bottom group are truly ignorant. They cannot really read with comprehension and they are innumerate as well. 8th-graders who require a calculator to do 2-digit addition problems are common. It is the granting of a H.S. diploma to ‘students’ who are functioning at best at 4th or 5th grade level that is the problem.
The current educational thinking is that it is much better to keep the problem kids in school and ‘off of the streets’ that make public schools such failure. If certain demographic groups are ‘disproportionally’ failed, then racism is the obvious reason why, so schools are forced to water down the curriculum so that illiterates still get passing grades and if they still manage to get Fs, the Fs are raised to Ds or Cs just to be ‘fair’.
Some schools, in major urban areas are so dominated by the bottom group that there is no real top or middle level courses. But many public schools in suburban/rural areas still offer challenging classes for students able and willing to participate. I am lucky that I live in such an area.
Scum parents raise scum kids.
Failing Academic Standards: Are Today’s Graduates Really Educated?
NO! Indoctrinated only.
Making good little socialists for the party.
In a word... NO they are not...
By and large a public school HS graduate is an ignoramus compared to folks who graduated in the 50s and 60s.
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