Posted on 09/16/2008 5:15:53 AM PDT by raybbr
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ok.... but can they txt msg?
“Christina Jeronimo was an “A” student in high school English, but was placed in a remedial course when she arrived at Long Beach City College in California. The course was valuable in some ways but frustrating and time-consuming. Now in her third year of community college, she’d hoped to transfer to UCLA by now.
Like many college students, she wishes she’d been worked a little harder in high school.
”There’s a gap,” said Jeronimo, who hopes to study psychology. “The demands of the high school teachers aren’t as great as the demands for college. Sometimes they just baby us.”
Well, given the liberal attitude that ‘we know everything’ it’s no wonder the moonbats can’t teach. Amazing isn’t it how many ‘dumb, stay at home red-neck moms’ continue to turn out spelling, geography, and honor roll champs by the thousands in home schools!
It’s not automatically bad that they have to retake a class in college that they took in high school. The simple fact of the matter is, unless you took AP or CLEP courses in high school, you have had no exposure to the difficulty of college courses. This is nothing new.
Only 45% of the kids graduate from high school in our city’s “welfare district”....which is most of the city.
This is what 40 years of collective bargaining with the NEA has brought.
reading? or reading ENGLISH?
Yup, things have changed since I was in highschool. I still have my old sliderule.
I wouldn't want to paint with too broad a brush, but yeah, seeking diversity is at least part of the problem.
And our current financial panic is due, in part, to the notion that even people who are manifestly unworthy of loans ought to still receive the loans, because to deny them would be discriminatory.
We've built a society in which we are not allowed to make rational decisions -- we are forced to make decisions that make people feel good. I think we're learning that we can't afford to avoid rational decisions.
“Colleges Spending Billions To Prep Freshmen”
The colleges aren’t spending jack, parents are.
I know this is a long time ago but in the early 1960 s if you did well in Academic Courses (which implied developing good study habits), you generally did well in college.
It is a shame that today's parents are paying for the same education twice. They pay once in High School via local taxes and again in college tuition.
The greatest country in the world has the most expensive education system in the world, but a far cry from the best.
I was offered a job teaching writing at a community college in New Jersey. It would be the second part of an Intro to Writing class. They informed me that the goal of Part 1 one of the class was to “get the students up to writing papers paragraphs long,” and my job would be to get them up to “five paragraphs.”
In a chirpy voice, the woman offering me the job added, “Some of them can write complete sentences!”
They offered me $1800 for the semester. I passed.
I told the story to a high school history teacher and he wasn’t even a little shocked. He said plainly, “It’s text messaging. It’s their main form of communication, and it’s destroyed their ability to compose complete sentences.”
Great, I should have edited my own durn self.
The first class (college level, mind you) taught the students how to write papers that were TWO paragraphs long. (I left out the two.) My ten-year-old can do that.
I’m so glad we investing in private school K-12 for our kids. As a result our college freshman daughter told me this week that she’s feeling like she has the college thing whipped.
Recycled story. When I started college at age 30 (back in the dark ages of 1991), the classes that were offered the most were remedial math, remedial reading, and remedial English because the kids just weren’t ready for college work. It is no different today.
Public schools aren’t trying to teach. That’s secondary to meeting the Federal testing guidelines.
BS on the text messaging destroying ability. These kids speak in full sentences and paragraphs. Blame the teachers who didn’t expect more.
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