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Recent NorCal Blogs Posts
You can’t fool kids.
A woman on TV this morning talked about her involvement in starting charter schools in New York. She was a Democrat but said she was disgusted with the school system’s poor performance. Her position was that kids need to be respected and challenged more if we want them to be high achievers. I agree.
We heard from a young man who immigrated from the Ukraine when he was 12, he was so far ahead of his American counterparts he couldn’t believe it. He said the kind of math they were doing he had done in the 5th grade.
Another student caller said the advanced classes for gifted kids where so far ahead that only a tiny minority of kids could get in, but on the other side, he felt like the regular classes were for slow kids, it was dull, not at all challenging. There was this huge gap between top and bottom classes.
Our future depends on our children’s education, God help us…because the liberals and their teachers unions sure won’t!
I hear they give you an A if you know the words to that Obama song and can spell “It’s Bush’s Fault” on the second or third try. They give extra credit for “Bogarting” the joint and filling the teachers car with so much smoke you cant see out the windows but still manage to make the beer run.
Working in the community college systems I experienced just how bad the math competency situation is.
During the summer wed get high school students trying to sign up for basic math classes they failed during their previous school year.
Our college students math level was so low many had to take basic math, pre-algebra, intro to algebra and algebra BEFORE they could take the college-level math course required for their degree. Students on Financial Aid would run out of their aid before completing their math class and getting their degree. They couldnt transfer, get their AA/AS degree, out of money and now had a break in their attendance for catalog rights leaving them open to take new/additional classes required of new students.
In the 1990s the CSU system changed their GE and admission requirement for community college transfer students that required math course grades had to be posted on their transcripts. Students could no longer take the math course the semester before transfer. Example: If the student planned to transfer in the spring of 2012 he/she would have to complete the math course in the spring or summer of 2011. Fall 2011 grades would not be posted to spring 2012 transcripts to meet the CSU admission deadline.
Peggy, that’s good to know about our J-C’s. I have always held them in pretty high esteem for giving students the most bang for the buck. I know many extremely bright and gifted people who spent their first two years in a junior college and were glad they did. Best deal in education.