About one in three first-year college students needs remedial help in at least one core subject, according to an annual report by the Colorado Commission for Higher Education.
And this in a state that is not poor compared to others. I am not an educator but I do teach and instruct in other ways younger people. The one thing that has stood out for years is that younger people can't write legibly period and throw spelling in there as well. I enjoy working and playing with friends who are so much younger than I because that's the way you have to look at it at least to me.
This is nothing new and has been going on for years. It's truly disgusting and what about the many places around the country where it's even worse. People are not even educated well enough to make good decisions about their lives let alone take part in a civic duty to their country. Civics is a unknown to students.
Said in the past and again now the Catholic crazys screwed up little One Fly in less than six months of a two year stint during junior high. High school was a bust for the most part.
What I learned from K-6 in a perfect learning environment carry me to this day and I am so happy for that. A simple education learning the basics is needed again. It just isn't that hard to do.
And this in a state that is not poor compared to others. I am not an educator but I do teach and instruct in other ways younger people. The one thing that has stood out for years is that younger people can't write legibly period and throw spelling in there as well. I enjoy working and playing with friends who are so much younger than I because that's the way you have to look at it at least to me.
This is nothing new and has been going on for years. It's truly disgusting and what about the many places around the country where it's even worse. People are not even educated well enough to make good decisions about their lives let alone take part in a civic duty to their country. Civics is a unknown to students.
Said in the past and again now the Catholic crazys screwed up little One Fly in less than six months of a two year stint during junior high. High school was a bust for the most part.
What I learned from K-6 in a perfect learning environment carry me to this day and I am so happy for that. A simple education learning the basics is needed again. It just isn't that hard to do.
Thanks for covering this, One Fly.
ReplyDeleteAnd they are cutting back, right?
After all, the diploma mills are operating perfectly now.
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Higher education s a sore subject with me right now One Fly. My daughter and son in law both live with me after they graduated from college. President Obama said we need more math and science majors. I've got one here that finally found a job as a telemarketer. But he's great helping my other kids with their math homework. So his parents 40 grand didn't go to waste. Of course the 30 grand I spent is sitting on the couch unemployed as we speak.
ReplyDeleteI hear that Truth. There are no jobs here where the case for the last 19yrs has been if you wanted to work you could. Not now.
ReplyDeleteSomething tells me the two unemployed hanging out can read and write real good and figure out how many miles to the gallon they're getting.
One Fly- Quit stepping on my lines. I've told you before about training h.s.grads+ how to do the simple math to figure out m.p.g. This was at first shocking. Then it became depressing. I feel the pain of people who are paying off student loans. I thank my lucky stars I could throw a baseball. To console those deep in debt I tell them a good education lasts a lifetime so they've got 45 yrs to pay for it.
ReplyDeleteGeography, social studies,typing, english [my fave], mathematics[my bane], gym, french, drama.
ReplyDeleteThese have served me well for 57 years and when you introduce tech stuff into schools without proper supervision you allow students not learn the basics.
Education os A2Z, not A,TUVXWY.
But George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act fixes all that, I'm sure. Our kids are now the best at taking tests of any kids on the planet. Why, if they ever run across a cash register that requires them to bubble in the correct amount of change to give you back, they'll be right prepared, yessiree!
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Thanks for taking the time to comment you guys!
ReplyDeleteLike you Camper I could throw things pretty good and we still can. May not be able to as well as back then but you sure as hell don't want us older fucks throwing anything at you.
ReplyDeleteI had a friend tell me that she read a paper from a first year college student that stated; "Firstly" instead of "First". The Regressives have done a good job in dumbing down Americans.
ReplyDeleteI've ranted enough on this subject to the point I'm burned out on it. Saint Reagan's deadly hands still working in all sectors of our society. Remember "A Nation At Risk?" Guess who put us there?
ReplyDeleteIf I was the boss PM you would be in charge of edukation.
ReplyDeleteIf you take a remedial course in college, you do not get college credit for it. Maybe we should do like they did in the old days,if a kid had trouble reading, stick him in shop class. Fly-- I feel sorry that you got yer knuckles rapped in class by an old fat habit wearin babe.
ReplyDeleteI was lucky-they never beat me but tried the other tactics and that didn't work either.
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