This does not seem elitist at all. I live in Las Vegas, a town where many
casino employees do not have college degree and earn MUCH more than your average
teacher. I believe we all have talents and strengths and those are what we need
to focus on in our career choices. If you look at many professional careers
requiring a degree, in general, they also require critical thinking skills and
logic. These skills may come from other subjects, but.. mainly are developed in
mathematics.
????
Cynthia
Helen Burn wrote:
> Abe:
>
> You mention that "there are always exceptions." The opinions of most
> other responders (a decidedly biased sample, I suspect) is that there are
> no exceptions. The situation I'm grappling with
> is the one
> student you run into every two or three years who is now flunking their
> intermediate algebra for the third time, and they're enrolled in this
> class after taking the previous class three times and finally passing with
> a 0.7. Yet the student is receiving 3.0-4.0 in their other subject
> matters. What to do? Should they be precluded from having an AA and
> going on? The response of: "Go be a plumber" seems elitist to me.
>
> Helen Burn
> Highline Community College
> Seattle, WA
>
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