“Watch for the regular freshman math and English to be dumbed down to the remedial level or the teachers pressured to pass the incompetent. “
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I taught English composition at a community college in Denver. I could NOT believe the skill level incoming students had. From poor spelling to illogical thinking to things that looked like they were cut and pasted from the Internet, it ran the gamut.
I felt bad for these people and tried my best to spend personal time with them (that’s really the only way to help many students improve).
You’re encountering the first wave of students who have never read a book purely for pleasure/enrichment; get used to it. The “post-reading” population has morphed into a “post-working” population - not just unwilling to work, but increasingly, unable to perform simple tasks at a job.