Re: [MATHEDCC] Attendance policy
Steve Kraisler (stevek@icdc.com)
Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:41:46 -0400
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>>
>>I teach in an inner city high school in Philadelphia. My colleagues and I
>>typically fail 50 to 60 percent of our academic students. We do our part-
>>it must be the fault of the suburban schools. :)
>>Steve Kraisler Internet: stevek@forum.swarthmore.edu
>>Mathematics Dept. stevek@icdc.com
>>Edison High School Fidonet:
steve_kraisler@f941.n273.z1.fidonet.org
>>Philadelphia, PA 19140 Voice: (215)-324-9440 (X3390)
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>>
>>
>I applaud your obviously high standards in math. Actually, I suspected this
>was going on since we have had so many very dedicated hs teachers on this
>list lately and since I have seen transcripts from some of the students who
>are required to take remedial math. My question should have been - How the
>devil do these students graduate despite having failed all their math
>classes? Or do they? And maybe it is the suburban schools. Recall the
>student who wrote in to this list a few days ago saying that he had a 99%
>average in Trig and had made A's in Alg I and II but couldn't score over
>610 on his SAT. Probably all my (and others) remarks about hs math
>preparation don't apply to anybody interested enough to be on this list.
>
>wayne
>
>Wayne F. Mackey
>Univ. of Arkansas
>SCEN #301
>Fayetteville, AR 72701
>wmackey@comp.uark.edu
>http://comp.uark.edu/~wmackey
In Pennsylvania, a student must have 3 years of high school math to
graduate. However these may be non-academic courses.
I suspect that many of the students who enter a community college or even a
two-year college do not bring with them the full academic math sequence.
emic courses.
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