4 Ways to Avoid Taking Remedial Math Courses

I always find it interesting how colleges change what they want from a student and high schools have to somehow catch up. High schools in my state want 4 years of upper level math - even if the students don't know how to manage everyday math in their personal finances. Writing is also an issue. My daughter graduated from a large college and her brother attends there now. There was just a few short years between them yet the 'requirements' for the gen ed english course have dramatically changed along with other requirements. Math is another issue that many students have trouble with. Math can be studied for so you can avoid the remedial classes - particularly when you have adults returning to school after many years. But it always seems the scores required from any given school are always different. So you could be fine in many schools and not make it in others. The bigger problem I've noticed is that the instructors for these 'remedial' classes really don't want to be there to begin with. Read a comment on another story recently where this college instructor referred to these students as illiterate. How disrespectful. These students are trying to make their lives better and they have instructors that automatically don't like them and don't think they can succeed.

Eagleflyboy of GA 5:07PM October 12, 2012