Illiteracy at college level, how can they make it that far?

[bigdaddy]

I had to take a college level math in which the teacher had to teach fractions.

You had to pass a test or date pre-math 101 in order to get into this class. Pre-math 1 would be algebra for the most part. This college level class, taught by a drag queen, in which he needed to teach fractiosn all all kinds of things. A student asked why attendance wasn't part of the grade (because it's fucknig college!) because she had a C and stayed in the 3 hour class while I showed up every other week for 30 minutes and had an A. I turned to her and went "I have an A". I actually got a 95 which was a 4.0.

The educational system is a joke and needs to be reformed.

 

[emacs]

I had to take a college level math in which the teacher had to teach fractions.

fractions are taught in grade school and used throughout the math classes in high school. i'm amazed some people in college (or university) require another review.

 

[Elwin Ransom]

I had to take a college level math in which the teacher had to teach fractions.

fractions are taught in grade school and used throughout the math classes in high school. i'm amazed some people in college (or university) require another review.

Hell, I had to teach a bunch of college freshman / sophomores how to do fractions in a music theory class. After failing for three successive classes to get them to understand time signatures, I realized that the underlying issue was that they couldn't do fractions or division. So, I spent an entire class period teaching them some basic math, and then got back to music. Sadly, I didn't have time to teach them to write, because their research papers were acts of war against the English language.

I have since quit my job as a college professor.

 

[Amaris]

You can't win them all. Good on you, though, for trying to round out their education where others had failed.

 

[trekkiedane]

Long story short: In order to be of help to my sister with her homework, she needed it for her studies, I thought it better to re-take (something probably akin to: ) math 101 than to rely on my memory.

At some point the teacher had to make room in the schedule to re-teach the entire class (but the two of us that actually did remember how to do it) the simple task of long division

 

[RoJoHen]

I had to take a college level math in which the teacher had to teach fractions.

fractions are taught in grade school and used throughout the math classes in high school. i'm amazed some people in college (or university) require another review.

I'm not saying it's an excuse, but in my high school, I think you only needed to take 2 math classes in order to graduate. Many people stopped taking math after their sophomore year.

I actually just had to teach someone (a 23-year old college graduate) how to multiply fractions the other day.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I had to take a college level math in which the teacher had to teach fractions.

fractions are taught in grade school and used throughout the math classes in high school. i'm amazed some people in college (or university) require another review.

I'm not too surprised. A lot of people have to take remedial English, math, etc. because they came out of high school woefully unprepared for college.

 

[bigdaddy]

I had to take a college level math in which the teacher had to teach fractions.

fractions are taught in grade school and used throughout the math classes in high school. i'm amazed some people in college (or university) require another review.

I'm not too surprised. A lot of people have to take remedial English, math, etc. because they came out of high school woefully unprepared for college.

I had to take Algebra 1 because I didn't pass the placement test, these other "students" would have had to do the same thing. Did they all sleep with the teacher?

It's America, the rule is "Not my problem", just pass the failures on to the next person.

My dad got the lowest passing grade every in French, something like a 42. How did he do it? He reminded the only French teacher in the high school that if he didn't pass him that he would be back next year. The teacher didn't want to deal with my dad so he passed him.

 

[RoJoHen]

fractions are taught in grade school and used throughout the math classes in high school. i'm amazed some people in college (or university) require another review.

I'm not too surprised. A lot of people have to take remedial English, math, etc. because they came out of high school woefully unprepared for college.

I had to take Algebra 1 because I didn't pass the placement test, these other "students" would have had to do the same thing. Did they all sleep with the teacher?

It's America, the rule is "Not my problem", just pass the failures on to the next person.

My dad got the lowest passing grade every in French, something like a 42. How did he do it? He reminded the only French teacher in the high school that if he didn't pass him that he would be back next year. The teacher didn't want to deal with my dad so he passed him.

My mom, who is a high school teacher, gets in trouble from her boss if she doesn't pass people. They find ways to pass kids so the schools can get more funding.

 

[Deckerd]

The problem is when they try to either go into higher education or to get a job. If the schools and colleges have degraded their qualifications the employers aren't stupid. Universities are extremely choosy too. The teachers in the UK aren't allowed to pass or fail pupils/students. Every formal paper they sit, plus their ongoing assessment work, is externally and anonymously marked.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I'm not too surprised. A lot of people have to take remedial English, math, etc. because they came out of high school woefully unprepared for college.

I had to take Algebra 1 because I didn't pass the placement test, these other "students" would have had to do the same thing. Did they all sleep with the teacher?

It's America, the rule is "Not my problem", just pass the failures on to the next person.

My dad got the lowest passing grade every in French, something like a 42. How did he do it? He reminded the only French teacher in the high school that if he didn't pass him that he would be back next year. The teacher didn't want to deal with my dad so he passed him.

My mom, who is a high school teacher, gets in trouble from her boss if she doesn't pass people. They find ways to pass kids so the schools can get more funding.

I hear this all the time. Social promotion is alive and well. Seems like you just end up with the students making it to high school, where they fail the NCLB-mandated tests and simply drop out, or manage to barely pass but wind up knowing little else besides what's on the tests. What a glowing success.

 

[RoJoHen]

I had to take Algebra 1 because I didn't pass the placement test, these other "students" would have had to do the same thing. Did they all sleep with the teacher?

It's America, the rule is "Not my problem", just pass the failures on to the next person.

My dad got the lowest passing grade every in French, something like a 42. How did he do it? He reminded the only French teacher in the high school that if he didn't pass him that he would be back next year. The teacher didn't want to deal with my dad so he passed him.

My mom, who is a high school teacher, gets in trouble from her boss if she doesn't pass people. They find ways to pass kids so the schools can get more funding.

I hear this all the time. Social promotion is alive and well. Seems like you just end up with the students making it to high school, where they fail the NCLB-mandated tests and simply drop out, or manage to barely pass but wind up knowing little else besides what's on the tests. What a glowing success.

Yeah, NCLB was one of the worst things to happen to American education. Sometimes kids need to be left behind!

 

[ancientone51]

The problem is, if we really flunked the kids who should flunk...just the ones flunking for NOT DOING ANYTHING!...it wouldn't take long to have too many kids in the school. That's one of the reasons to pass 'em long regardless of their level of skills and abilities.

That and it makes the administration look bad.

FYI are we all aware that, according to NCLB 100% of students will pass in just a few years? Yep, perfection is the goal, failure will be defeated.


(and pigs will fly without Nanny McPhee)