Tony Jenkins
Northwestern Michigan College
Traverse City, MI
Bret Taylor wrote:
> I'm doing any formal survey, but just want to know if we are alone at LSCC.
> We are a small public, open door, community college. We have 6 faculty
> members in math who have been here at least 4 years. (4 have been here at
> least 10 years.)
>
> All of us have noticed a dramatic decrease in the ability, and/or work ethic
> of our students this term. Not just one particular class. Not just first
> time in college students. But, from developmental arithmetic through Calculus.
>
> Not really looking for a philosophical debate on the topic. More just
> wondering if anybody else has noticed the same thing. Hopefully, it is a
> one semester aberration. (Something about stastically speaking, we can
> predict that unusual events will occur, we just can't predict when or where.)
>
> Bret Taylor Lake-Sumter Community College Leesburg FL
>
> "It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves.
> What matters more, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves."
> John Wooden
>
> John 3: 3^3 + 3
>
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