I would agree that litigation has occurred before. But in this case...the ‘kid’ reached some level of reality in realizing in the second year of community college that he wasn’t nowhere near prepared for what they were teaching.
No one says his level, but I would almost imagine that he’s basically at the 7th-to-8th grade level. He would need tutoring going on for a full-year to prepare for community college. No one is going to do that for ‘free’.
I had an associate I worked with around 2010. His son had finished up high school and the university had a math test requirement before entry. The kid then got a note after the test...he’d have to take a pre-college math class (in the $600 range) in that first semester. It counted for nothing toward a degree. His dad mounted a serious challenge on this, and they demonstrated that the kid wasn’t mathematically ready for college material.
I agree with you on the merits, but there were children who couldn’t read or add back when previous lawsuits went nowhere.
The court ruled that schools do not have a specific responsibility to any individual student or his/her family.
Any math class beyond algebra in high school such as geometry is a waste of time unless you intend to become an engineer.
Geometry was the only class I flunked in high school. And to this day, there has never been one occasion where I needed it.
I could tell in the first line of a report if it had been dictated by my boss. They’d be in Ebonics. He’d constantly call me in to interpret my reports because he didn’t know the meaning of simple English words. A co-worker was just as bad speaking Ebonics. It took me a while to understand “pepper traitor” was “perpetrator”. Both held college degrees.
The average American adult is not at that level. For example, read the typical news reports in the paper. They are written at a middle school level or even lower.
I think most viable 7-8th graders would be able to get a C at Comm College if they applied themselves at all!
I started taking Latin in 7th grade.
This dude was, like so many, mired in crap during grade school and nobody gave a Shiite!
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