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... well, this is the real reason, but I don't think any professional would word it that way! Here[0] is a story about a group arguing (a bit successfully, I m
by mhuffman 7y ago
... well, this is the real reason, but I don't think any professional would word it that way!
Here[0] is a story about a group arguing (a bit successfully, I might add!) that "forcing" students to have the ability to at least pass algebra to get a college degree is a civil rights issue!
[0] https://www.npr.org/2017/07/19/538092649/say-goodbye-to-x-y-should-community-colleges-abolish-algebra https://www.npr.org/2017/07/19/538092649/say-goodbye-to-x-y-...
- mantap 7y agoRight because putting people in crippling debt when they fail out of college is going to improve civil rights.
- mhuffman 7y agoI mean offering a worthless* degree to people is also not helping, right? * I am using worthless here, to denote that someone that does not even have the capacity deal with a single term of high-school level algebra, can otherwise do very well in it.