Aren't we suffering from a generation of teaching with the philosophy of Dr.
William Glasser and his "Schools Without Failure"? Shouldn't a high school
graduate be prepared to pass a "College Algebra" class which is probably
similar to what most of us on this list probably took as Algebra I in high
school? I know they aren't prepared, and, hence, our problem.
On a similar strain, why are we hearing politicians brag that we are now
going to commit a special effort to teach third graders to read? How did
they ever get into the third grade without being able to read? Our VP was
in a school last week and was surprised to discover that fourth graders
could read. ( I know this has all been politicized to death on both ends -
and I'm really not trying to do that. I just wish we would look beyond the
politics to the causes and not the symptoms.)
Oh well, enough ranting from an idealist trying to survive in a real world.
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