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This is a wrong analogy, I feel. A student being a customer is not quite right. I think the analogy of a sports coach and a mentee is more appropriate. The pur

• barry-cotter 4y ago
  > The purpose of the coach is to train the youngster to become competitive. And sometimes that’s not possible. If you’re 5 foot nothing you’re not making it to the NBA. Some people couldn’t pass organic chemistry with a decade to succeed at it. People are not equal in their capabilities.
  • voisin 4y ago
    > Some people couldn’t pass organic chemistry with a decade to succeed at it. These people should have never been allowed into the program if this course is that important. Filter better. The NBA raises the bar on anyone trying to get in that’s “5 foot nothing”.
    • barry-cotter 4y ago
      The NBA does not actually stop people playing basketball. It does not stop people putting in thousands of hours trying to get to their minimum bar. Organic Chemistry 1 is not trying to get into the NBA. It’s trying to get into a high school basketball team. Thousands of people do well enough at high school basketball to play university level. Most of them have no hope of playing professionally, anywhere. Organic Chemistry is only “that important” if you’re going to study chemistry, medicine or possibly biology. If you can’t pass it you’re not going to make it. Weeder courses exist to fail people who wouldn’t have made it sooner rather than later. You can do it at community colleges or open enrollment universities with no admissions standards like CUNY.