[CodeToad]

“the obvious solution is for colleges to lower their standards and just give these students a diploma like their high schools did!”

Actually, they do. I have witnessed students not turning in any assignments of exams and getting a passing grade. Schools live on Title IV funding and will not flunk a paying customer. They are not students anymore, they are funding sources.

[Starboard]

Schools live on Title IV funding and will not flunk a paying customer. They are not students anymore, they are funding sources.

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True that. Education is not the goal. Its all about institutional enrichment and perpetuation of the gravy train for “educators”.

[kearnyirish2]

That’s exactly right; the school wants the money that comes with the fake students, and the government wants the fake students to put off breeding for a few more years...

[Do the math]

When I teach upper level or graduate courses in math most of my students pass because they don't get into these classes unless they are prepared. When I teach freshmen classes, like calculus 1, my pass rate is usual only about 40 percent. Most freshmen should not even have a high school diploma. I often have freshmen that can't add fractions, or do basic arithmetic with out a calculator. The worse students tend to have delusions of grandeur, unrealistic expectations of reality, and inflated egos. The snowflakes always blame me for failing my course, it's never their fault.