Never lower standards. I was talking about standards for a college education. If a career does not require a college education, then don't go to college for that career. Too many people have the wrong idea about college. Some simply do not belong in college because they didn't study in high school or just have low-intelligence. Likewise, some do not belong in a trade school. There's a different type of intelligence required to successfully perform a trade; and a lot of high-IQ types could never be successful in a trade. They don't belong there.
There is a need for unskilled workers. Nothing is wrong with that either. People should be satisfied simply with doing a job well done.
“Too many people have the wrong idea about college.”
And that is the magic of the problem. It has been driven into too many minds that without college, you’ll have to settle for fast food work. (As of late, $15 an hour is the going rate the administration is pushing for) But the appearance of $80k a year is the mirage being put out there for doing almost anything, if you’ve got that sheepskin. So, college is the oasis of the future. And that is reflected in the HR of the outside world in the phrase, 10 years experience and a degree in X. So why should graduating from high school be acceptable when the good jobs are out of reach without a college skin by the standards?
But the article started with the thought of disallowing remedial classes, this one in the math department, from being considered creditable classes. If these are not going to be credited then they are requiring their use, for nothing other than meeting a standard established the that particular institution. And that is raising the standard when you are forced to get practical learning to raise your capacity to their level, without their considerations, and not the level of the position you are looking for in the job market because you can’t get that learning they say. So doesn’t that raise the level to a higher than acceptable level by limiting the opportunity?
The students are not there to dance through the classes with a high school skin that doesn’t even guarantee literacy anymore. And the colleges are supposed to be there to provide an opportunity to create the skills of the student not to chase them out except for the few who can afford it. And adding classes not creditable, but charged for and expensive, is not the answer or the promise.
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