The dumb-ing down of America continues.
I have one in college, one looking to go to college next yr, and a 13 yo. My wife is a teacher. Our houshold has some insight here.
There’s a lot of good, academically qualified kids out there. Problem is they’re only about 10% of the population(my estimate), of that, about 1-2% are highly qualified.
We get a University of Chicago flier about every two weeks, (and phone calls too). Maybe their problem is with geography? Maybe the problem is less highly academically qualified students?
You think I want to send my kid to Chicago to go to school? Sorry NOT!
I can see the dumb-ing down all around us, and it seems to be picking up steam. Why cut a standard of admissions which measures ability, unless you may not be getting enough students to choose from who meet those requirements?
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Curious to this move of their’s.
Today, I would looking at colleges and their programs like they were a Mercedes Benz limo, and gazing at their real numbers...getting kids to useful degrees and getting a job within sixty days of graduation. Any place talking over their ‘party-status’ or bragging about cultural awareness? I’d skip them.
I agree with it. If there had been no SAT/ACT when I was in high school, I would’ve studied a lot harder, which would’ve not only meant that I would’ve learned a lot more, but also that I would’ve developed some grittier habits that would’ve served me better later on. Instead, I sort of knew from the preliminary tests that my scores were going to be able to get me to where I needed to go, regardless of how little I applied myself in classes.
cost of 4 year college is one of real problems and lack of diversity of those teaching the programs - no critical thing taught - since only liberal views allowed, no freedom of speech - those are the real problems of higher education - oh yes there is discrimination of Asian and whites to be sure...we have Asian American rising sophomore now in college - we know!