A week of dealing with woefully underprepared students has once again left me wondering how the high schools here manage to maintain their accreditation. When a student doesn't know what 8 divided by 2 is, or 6 times 5, or the square root of 9, they probably have too much catching up to do to be successful in a college algebra course. The sad part is when you ask these students what classes they took in high school, a lot of them answer with pre-calculus. What the teacher was doing in said pre-calculus course other than handing out grades is open to question.
Of course the Bluegrass has the solution to this problem. Crack down on truancy, force the students to attend, and allow the local schools to conduct the standardized testing like they always have. Apparently, I'm the only one who sees a problem with this.
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