“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!
Public schools aren’t trying to teach. That’s secondary to meeting the Federal testing guidelines.
In defense of at least SOME teachers.... and as a former teacher myself (resigned in June of this year):
I know several teachers and former teachers (myself included) who have taken a great deal of heat for “giving” too many “F” grades. Also, there have been threats by administrators if you don’t have enough of your “top” students getting “A’s”.
I know that I got called to the carpet more than once when one of those “top” students didn’t get an A when they had straight A’s all the way through school.
Well... if they don’t do the work and achieve the grade, I wasn’t about to “GIVE” an A - I put in the grade they earned. But if ordered specifically to give that higher grade - then how can you justify giving lower grades to those who “earn” the same lower grade the other student did?
And it snowballs.
O good friend of my father recently retired from teaching Science in public high school. He had his fill. He was called to the Principal and Superintendent’s office many times because he too many students were failing his class.
But what was he to do? He had even gone to putting test answers on the board before handing out the tests - and still over half the class would fail. The students were just too lazy to even look at the answers and write them down on their test.
Add to all this the NEA and other feel-gooders (including attorneys who look for “injustice” in the schools) and we have an environment where - if a student doesn’t get a good grade, it MUST be the teacher’s fault - so good grades are handed out like candy....
Let's call those “A”s what there are: LYING!!! Her government teachers are LIARS!!
Government teachers and principals lie to students all the time, every day, and it is rampant throughout the country.
Every time a child is promoted from grade to grade without having proficiency then the teachers and principals are lying. Every time a child is told he is a 9th grader but can only read on the second grade level those teachers and principals are LYING!
Government teachers would like us to think that they are sooooo selfless that they should sit on the right hand of Mother Teresa,...but...the truth is too many of them are liars, and nearly all cooperate with lying.
Think LIAR the next time you meet a government teacher.
One more thing, I don't think big hairy kids who can ‘t read, do arithmetic, or write should be warehoused with the little kids. There should be special classes and schools for them.
The teacher was quite peeved. He finally decided to only assign *odd* numbered problems so the kids could check their own work for accuracy.
My daughter was fuming. “He's just too lazy to properly grade our homework! It's much easier to just glance at the paper to see if we did it than to dig around to see if we did it right! Very few highschoolers will use the answer key in the back of the book correctly. They'll just cheat and this whole class is going to be lost!”
She's gone to the principal to complain about teachers in the past. (”He's weak! He's completely lost control of the classroom! He needs to enforce DISCIPLINE!” “Her teaching methods are ineffective. She doesn't answer questions and the kids who need help the most are slipping through the cracks!”) The cool part is that the administration actually listens to her and has taken action.
I'm just sitting back, smiling and waiting to see what she does with this one. She's pretty mad.
(See, this is what happens when you give females shoes and teach them to hunt! They get all *uppity*! lol!)
I'm not surprised that community colleges are going to have a lot of students who require remedial work- they tend to attract a lot of students who aren't quite ready for regular colleges.
It's a function of the expansion of the opportunities for kids to go to college- some kids are going to be borderline on their academic qualifications. I doubt you're seeing too many remedial classes at UCLA, for example.