More federal intervention=more failure.
More federal intervention=more failure.
Not everybody needs to go to college, though.
Get those kids into college where they can borrow trillions and funnel the dough to Democrat supporting profs & admins.
The problem at least in California is that performance reviews are non-existent. Yes, I know there are other problems, but come on.
What about the other 58%?
If you think about the traditional level of college attendance, 37% being prepared is about right.
The problem is there is nothing for all of the others to do.
63% of high school seniors need to consider a career in HVAC, auto repair, or welding where they can pick up a good paycheck and not go six figures in debt.
So often I wonder why our schools are not producing well educated students.
I wonder how it is, that schools 60 and 70 years ago, when we spent a lot less per capita adjusted for inflation than today, produced graduates who could read and write and function in the world.
I wonder about an older black man, who I saw on TV, who said he got a better education in the Jim Crow South than inner city black youth get today.
I wonder how it is, that a number of big city school systems spend more per capita than the national average on education, but produce some of the worst results.
And I wonder about the landmark report, A Nation At Risk, produced over 30 years ago, which outlined many serious problems of our schools. And why it is that we haven’t been able to make needed changes in how our schools function, even though we are all aware and agree on some of the serious problems we face.
Basic literacy is really all you need for today’s dumbed-down version of college, so what this is really saying is that almost 2/3rds of children are not literate after 12 or more years of “education”.
But 100% are prepared to be offended by any social issues or personalities they don’t like.
and that a huge number of college/university enrollees must take a year or more of remedial classes before beginning freshman classes. Then they will flunk out or quit because it is too hard two years later, and the school has made a bunch of bucks off a kid who should never had been accepted in the first place. And on top of that have a large government school loan to pay off. It is a racket. The kid should have gone to a technical high school and learned a trade which probably make more than the guy who graduated form college that year.
And, and, if you trace back to when the national decline of education commenced, it was the year following the advent of the US Department of Education.
but they have more self-esteem than a platoon of b-movie stars, know more about transgueerism than thought possible and are on more psychotropic drugs than Mickey Jackson... the little snowflake couldn't care less if they can't read or count to 100Of course, this has nothing to do with dumbing down for illegals.
The old adage comes to mind, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.”
Students will not do five 7th-grade math homework problems per week. I enter more zeros than scores, despite tutoring in my homeroom every morning for 30 minutes - either with me or peers; despite my volunteering to tutor for 50 minutes after school each week; despite that they can turn it in for me to check and make comments to help them fix their mistakes.
Even though I send out to parents - who have an email address - a weekly overview of lessons and the homework as an attachment, too many pay no attention or have
little concern. (Cannot tell you how many parent conferences I have had where the parent states that they do no receive my emails, yet they give me the same address. Cannot tell you how many parent phone calls I have attempted to make and ALL the numbers provided no longer work.)
The mess we are in, IMHO, is twofold: 1) a government interference problem from the federal level, coupled with lack of common sense regarding the so-called “college- and career-ready” standards, AKA Common Core; and 2) demise of a culture where 2 parents raise their children by disciplining them rather than being their equals and impart an appreciation - a desire - for learning.
If you can survive at subsistence level by becoming a libtard parasite when you get out of school, then why spend the time and effort studying?
Reading and math are unimportant to the other 63% who only go to college for liberal arts, lessons in protesting and demanding something for nothing.
Ultimately, it is the parents’ responsibility to make sure their children are educated properly. Good parenting is observant, active, self driven and responsible.
When my youngest was in high school, they started a new stupid math program and all the parents I knew had their children tutored or taught them advanced math themselves. They wanted them prepared for the SATs and college.
Liberals make fun of “helicopter” parents but incompetent and lazy liberals are the ones who caused parents to step in and take over the care and education of school aged children.
About a third of kids are fit for college; about a third ought to just go to work or the military; the other third limited to sweeping floors as a career. The Bell Curve at work....
Why didn't the others prepare?