At 02:23 PM 10/2/98 -0700, you 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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