[Mr. K]

if you can count up to 20 without taking off your shoes you pass.

[Gaffer]

Speechless. How is Amal Mohammed Abdullah gonna know how to calculate the proper mix of diesel and fertilizer and amounts for a 55 gallon drum recipe with he wants to adjust it?

[ColdOne]

The left always has to keep its voters dumb.

[Mr. K]

OK I was joking but in reality you should know algebra BEFORE you get to college.

It should disqualify you if you don’t. Go to a trade school.
Welders make good money.

[rfreedom4u]

“quantitative learning”

What the heck is that?

[forgotten man]

2 + 2 = whatever, depending on your culture.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Only to cry. Dumbing down the country has been steady with no end in sight.

[doorgunner69]

“The one-size-fits-all college algebra approach wasn’t working for all students,”

IOW, if millenials cannot cope with it or find the answer on their smartphone, it must be eliminated.

[FreedomPoster]

I’m guessing “college algebra” is what I think of as H.S. freshman algebra? And the gifted kids could take it in the 8th grade?

[eyedigress]

Others noted that the new quantitative requirement might leave students ill-prepared if they take advanced math courses later in their college careers.

and it might leave them ill-prepared for a job in the real world.

[oh8eleven]

This decision was made largely because the current (math) requirement is at a level already required by most high school mathematics curriculum
Can't say I disagree with the new policy. I took four years of math in HS and never used any of it.
On the other hand, I took statistics in college and since I was in quality assurance for many years, used them all the time.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Makes sense. Algebra is a subject that should have been mastered in high school. College students should be on to bigger things.

But...I know that's NOT why they are doing this. Just another form of Affirmative Action.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

As long as they squeeze every student loan dollar they can out of the marks... I mean students... it’s all good.

[TexasGator]

“because I believe the sort of student who wants to go on into advanced mathematics will recognize it early on. And if they really have an inclination for that, they’ll be able to deal with that transition.” “

Duh...

Such a student would already have mastered algebra and some calculus in high school ...

[TexasRepublic]

No one needs algebra to ring up an order of French fries. Dat’s old school.

[HotKat]

I coulddabeen phi beta kappa. If only. Instead I’m just average.

[faithhopecharity]

that’s just fine.
public universities are largely just baby sitting centres for rich spoiled brats to get indoctrinated by commies and IslamoNazi operatives. They can then go on the dole....and play computer games the rest of their lives in their mamas’ basements.

and
American businesses and industry will continue to import workers from Communist China and India who HAVE most of the college training needed to actually DO THE WORK

everyone ends up happy, right?

[Paul46360]

I knew it was a high school all along..M GO BLUE

[Hornet22]

Our son is a teachers aid at a state college out west. The class assignment was to “write two paragraphs and use proper punctuation and spelling”.
84% of the students failed.

[bgill]

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