This is precisely what President Dubya meant when he described "the soft bigotry of low expectations.".
Students desperately need to learn self-discipline and responsibility and achievement.
And, a successful completion of college algebra just might open some doors and give an earned feeling of accomplishment to those students who need it most.
Who would be the biggest losers if college algebra were eliminated (or diluted into oblivion)?
Underachieving minorities.
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For leftists using “a civil rights issue” means “you lose, debate over.”
They think all they have to say are those magic words and all discussion ends.
Saw it with ‘gay marriage.’ Seeing it with this nonsense.
Without IQ scores, standards for the necessary skills went down and students get ahead of themselves in Math. Add to that, too much reward is given for "group participation" and other stuff that can circumvent Math skills. For many of these CC students to be able to get up to speed, they'd have to start filling in the gaps starting with elementary school math. The teachers and students are all too lazy and unmotivated to do that. JMHO
“This is precisely what President Dubya meant when he described “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”.”
OR, low expectations based on generations of experience, observation and IQ test scores. The pattern is always the same, minorities fail to meet standards others have met for hundreds of years, spend millions of dollars trying to increase test scores, fail, lower the standard.