Posted on 05/23/2007 2:59:55 PM PDT by george76
Remedial classes await.
Thousands of Colorado high schoolers are graduating this month with plans to go to college in the fall.
Hundreds of them will be academically unprepared when they get there.
Those students will take — and pay for — remedial classes that don’t count toward a degree.
Educators say the need for remedial work is fueled largely by a lack of communication between high schools and colleges about what’s important to know. They also say high school students need to pay closer attention to class selection and grades, especially in the senior year when many coast toward graduation day. And, some say, high school should be more rigorous.
About 30 percent of recent high school graduates who went to Colorado’s public colleges last year were assigned to remedial courses in at least one subject, the report said. The number rose to about 56 percent at two-year colleges.
Nearly 61 percent of students were assigned to remedial classes at Pikes Peak Community College.
Even in the Pikes Peak region’s top-performing high schools, as many as 20 to 30 percent of graduates needed remedial help in college.
(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...
Well, hell, of course they are unprepared. Most of thenm can’t make change good enough to make a living at MacDonalds!
Unbelievable how they keep making up these bogus justifications. When I went to high school and then college, they had figured out what we needed to know. Now they can't remember what they knew then. Ridiculous!
What I find most funny is how all I hear about these days is how kids are loading up on their AP classes in high school. Hor ironic!
And Alex wasn’t prepared for the Ludovico Technique.
I got 9 credit hours in HS from ap courses. Because of that, ill be able to graduate a semester early :)!
Metmom, we’ve been pinging each other for a while. You know what to do...
“I don’t understand how Democrats support telling schools how and what to teach their children about sex, but disapprove of creating math and science standards,”
Now, what does this really mean? Are colleges, whose professors are tenured, annoyed that the intellectual num-nuts they receive are too under-educated to understand the indoctrination they are receiving?
Interesting series of articles in the St. Pete Times the last couple of weeks about a liberal black journalist (Bill Maxwell) who decided to “give back” to his community, quit his job as a journalist, and teach at a black college. Boy was he surprised at how unprepared the kids were.
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/13/Opinion/I_had_a_dream.shtml
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/20/Opinion/A_dream_lay_dying.shtml
On the other hand, we homeschooled through 9th grade, “the kid” went to community college during high school years, earned his AA, transferred to University, and is graduating from college in December at the age of 19. He’s no genius, we just chose, not to do it the “traditional way”...which doesn’t seem to be working for a lot of kids. (P.S. the whole degree will have been tuition free...dual credit for AA, state merit scholarship for final two years.)
I hope it works for my daughter. She had two this year and four next year. Awaiting test results now. I appreciate her trying to save me some money. And I do get your irony BTW.
They will, however, be fully prepared to march in the streets and tell us how the world should be run.
No. It means that students graduating high schools are functionally illiterate and can't place into ENG-101 and so mathematically challenged they can't place into a simple college algebra course. Without a basic knowledge of readin', writin', and 'rithemtic they can't succeed in any of the other courses.
By the way, not all college professors are liberal wingnuts.
And that’s after they graduate from college.
Like English, Math, Composition, Spelling, History, Geography..ad infinitum. They are adept at condoming cucumbers however so they can opt out of that one and go directly to the "sex".
The lack of writing skills to write a basic business letter or to do basic math is really hurting businesses.
Businesses must spend lots of money and time also providing remedial classes for many potential employees...even with college degrees.
They received their feel good diplomas....hope they learned to say
“Do you want to Super Size that?” and how to press Menu Item #4 on the register during their four years of HS.
They could even be a tenured CU professor ?
/s
Yes, and they also just feel so good about it all - self-esteem you know.
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