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High schools failing to prepare students

College finds 40 percent need help before they can take math courses

Maryland Independent, by JESSE YEATMAN

The number of students needing to take a remedial math course at the College of Southern Maryland continues to be high, school officials said, even though the math is taught at the high school level.

Tom Seremet, a veteran math professor at the community college, said every year he continues to see too many students test into math courses that do not count toward the math graduation requirements at the community college.

Posted by: Sammy on 02/26/10 at 02:10 PM

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1. · How can this be?

I thought Hugh School Grads had to pass proficiency tests to Graduate.

How can you graduate not knowing simple High School Math?

If they dont know math they shouldnt graduate.

formerly known on the ‘Duck’ as spirit of the elder & BJGoodwin

Comment by Barbara on 02/26/10 at 04:08 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
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How can you graduate not knowing simple High School Math?

Because the current system of instruction is not geared toward education, but toward attaining a single skill--that of passing a standardized test. You can teach a bear to ride a bicycle and have him perform on command in a circus, but that won't mean the bear will know how to use the bicycle to take himself anywhere he wants to go.

A friend of mine who is a math teacher in the county said recently that most of the kids he is getting these days have what he calls "islands of knowledge." They know this equation or that formula or can recite some theorem because it was required on a test, but there is no understanding that allows them to link these things together or to, most importantly, apply such an understanding to other areas and actually develop new ideas on their own. Such are the results of the memorization and regurgitation approach to education.

The problem is we are letting the tail wag the dog (to borrow a phrase). We do not have our current system of instruction because it is the best way to educate students but because it is the simplest and cheapest way to collect data, compile statistics, and rank kids and schools and school systems. What good does it do to pass a flawed test based on flawed standards around which flawed curricula are developed? The only good is that it produces a very simple to identify and understand score that politicians can then use to justify damn near anything they want.

Let's quit pointing the finger at the kids when it is the system that is failing. And for God's sake, let's quit threatening the kids with literally their entire futures if they don't "perform" well enough when they take the ring in this educational circus. It's an odd belief we must have about why kids fail. The only justification for thinking that threatening students with lifelong harm will force them to learn better is if we believe that they are only failing because they are lazy or defiant. It's a rather "American" approach to problem solving, this idea that we can get anyone to bend to our will and comply if only we threaten and then punish them severely enough. It's absolutely disgusting that it's our own children we are doing this to.

Comment by mbillard on 02/26/10 at 07:30 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main]
3. · Brilliant MB -bravo...!! Beautifully said-

And you wonder why our malls are unsafe-if someone/the system was threatening you daily with failure-rather than showing a specific interest to your individual needs etc, - and your home life was full of stress as both parents are largely absent as they worked tirelesly to pay the bills, or only one parent was forced to carry the household load in the struggle for the legal tender-in an ever more imbalanced USA where the gap between the have's and have nots keeps growing emitting a certain type of hopelessness and anxiety for the teens and kids in school.....MB is spot on ...our system is promoting this social mayhem.

The very smart kids will always find a way to make it but a certain large segment ofthe school population will need some hands on to succeed in the future--crowded classrooms dont usually offer it.

As we continue to accelerate growth too quickly for the profits of a few in this county-we add to more overcrowding in school classrooms and lesser attention paid to students in need-and we promote a whole underclass of people which we complain about later..

But it is ultimately our fault for not demanding that our county priorities shift in a major way -putting for profit of a self interested priveledged few in the quick growth and red sink hole recreational ammenities on the back burner as we right our ship to a much better moral positioning which addresses our kids who will be a torch bearers in the future.

Too make them more ill prepared than we are in the present as we dumb them down due to our institutional laziness is selfish at best and criminal at worst

And we sill surely reap what we sow--as America begins to lag as a world leader and other nations due to their hard work and diligence and better care of the precious progeny leap past un in the future...We wont be able to simply bomb everybody into submission forever..especially as the 21st century becomes the Chinese century with major global shifts of economic and, even, to a degree, military power

We have only ourselves to blame when we allow politicians rulee over us for their own personal self interests as a primary goal in their shortsighted vision of silver lined pockets-as we ignore the long term consequences of an ill prepared mass of our youth who will be our representitives to the future

CC has the cart before the horse and it is being pulled by charlatans with dollars bursting from ther pockets as they steal not only public tax dollars from us, as they in thier interested mangement of the county are ultimately stealing brighter futures from many of our ill prepared children-who only needed some critical attention at the formative times.

You think the mall is bad now??!!

MB is right -Morally we are missing the boat with the personal responsibility that we owe our kids- ultimately-presently- we are shipping a lot of our kids down the river to poorer future prospects as we selfishly take the easy road of largely-'''taking the kids in and moving them out- Rawhide!!--

Greed is an all encompassing sin which robs the soul of its proper compass-CC -locally-is a prime example of such lost bearings..

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