Recent news: “Officials: Most NYC High School Grads Need Remedial Help Before Entering CUNY Community Colleges” (reformatted, emphasis mine)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s an education bombshell.
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system. The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2?s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday. When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.
They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses. They are part of a disturbing statistic.
Officials told CBS 2?s Kramer that nearly 80 percent of those who graduate from city high schools arrived at City University’s community college system without having mastered the skills to do college-level work.
Hmm – not much value there, is there? More like Public Education has a “dereliction of duty problem” on the order of “Do they even know what they are doing”? And those of us that went through primary school through high school before the mid-70s (when the hippie / draft dodging / New Left schooled radical” teachers gave us limitless opportunities to make sport of cashiers that can’t make change in their heads or cannot string three complex sentences to save their lives. Grokster Steve’s recent post on how homeschooling is illegal in Germany and how NH Dems have worked hard to do the same here too (either de jure or de facto): Do NH Democrats Want To Pass A Law Like This One In Germany? It has accumulated a fair number of comments. Hunter Dan – a government teacher that comments here (and to whom, we have been trying to better educate) – left us a comment here in response to a comment by Susan on a monopolistic stranglehold on “public education” by the teachers unions: