Community Colleges and Remedial needs

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

True, but how is a seventeen year old to know what the appropriate standards are? Which things they don't know? The best learning techniques? Schools share some of that responsibility.

Like piercehawkeye45 said it is a shared responsibility. New York State does, however, have very well thought out standards and highly educated teachers outside the very scary places. They also have large sub-populations that actively oppose learning. You could shoot <10% and turn things around. As noted NCLB is part of the problem because the cookie cutter education destroys motivation... I'm just grouchy because I have parents who only send their kids to school to get them out of their hair and we had another visit from Child Protective this week regarding maybe the sweetest little kid in my charge.


* instead of shooting you could drop mandatory attendance.