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>How about this:
>
>Premise - Students who graduate from high school should not have to take
>developmental courses. They should be prepared for freshman college work.
>(Especially the level of freshman work offered at open door community
>colleges. I'm not talking about Calculus; I'm talking about College Algebra.)
>
>Premise - Schools who certify a student as being ready for freshman college
>courses should be held accountable, as much as is possible.
>
>Action: Developmental courses should be taught and all students who take
>them should pay out-of-state tuition. Any student who graduated from a
>public high school in the state that he or she is attending college will
>have all developmental course tuition paid for by the school system who
>granted the diploma. Students who graduated out-of-state, in-state at a
>private high school, or through home schooling would have to pay the tuition
>themselves. No financial aid may be used to pay for developmental coursework.
>
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Agreed, but I would propose that this be done on a sliding scale, with
school systems paying the cost as follows:
Average the grade the student got in their last two HS math courses, and
call that N. Then
N = A, school system pays the whole thing
N = B, school system pays 2/3 of the whole thing
N = C, school system pays 1/3 of the whole thing
N = D or F, student pays the whole thing.
This would more fairly put the blame where it lies (more or less; as
always, some people get scrod).
mark snyder
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