Nearly half of NYC DOE grads at CUNY need
remedial classes
New York Post,
by
Georgia Worrell *
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/26/2023 3:58:20 AM
Nearly half of all New York City public school graduates who head to local community colleges are forced into remedial classes to survive their first semester, troubling new data obtained by The Post reveal.
Amid chronic absenteeism, widespread grade inflation, and a failure to prepare students for higher education, city school kids are being shoved through an educational revolving door without truly learning, experts told The Post.
“Most of the kids we get from New York City schools are underprepared for college,” said Mohammad Alam, assistant dean of enrollment at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 2/26/2023 4:41:35 AM (No. 1412051)
Surprise, surprise, surprise! And these are NYC students who actually stayed in school. Social promotion is a disease that poisons children, deceives parents, and fails our country both now and for generations yet to come. Is it any wonder that crime and drugs seem so enticing to young people failed by public education and public policies that have destroyed minority families?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 2/26/2023 5:21:44 AM (No. 1412066)
Get rid of the teacher's union, then get rid of the bad teachers.
Tell parents that if their kids do not show up for school, do their homework, and pass tests, they will not be pushed through the system.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 2/26/2023 6:34:33 AM (No. 1412106)
It's not just NYC. Just look at your local community colleges and their course listings. If you see classes with 085 or 095, those are remedial classes that are at the 8th grade, 9th grade fifth month level.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/26/2023 6:57:25 AM (No. 1412111)
Another day, another batch of evidence of the innate stupidity of New Yorkers!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 2/26/2023 7:00:23 AM (No. 1412112)
This has been going on in the south for over 50 years. Teachers were not allowed to fail anyone. My mother wanted my brother to repeat a year since he'd had so much trouble trying to keep up. The teacher told her they couldn't do that, the government won't allow it. The local university also had remedial classes for those who had learned very little and were in no shape to take college classes.
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Perhaps if they spent more timer reading and writing and less time teaching the students about sexual deviancy, they kids would do better
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/26/2023 8:31:22 AM (No. 1412157)
In Baltimore not one student passed the math test.
https://dnyuz.com/2023/02/09/zero-students-proficient-in-math-in-23-baltimore-schools-test-results-reveal/
But if you asked them the scores at the B-ball games they know those.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
paral04 2/26/2023 8:35:01 AM (No. 1412164)
Did they do away with the state-wide Regents exams that had to be passed to move on to the next grade or graduate when appropriate? If so, is that now condemned as Racist?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 2/26/2023 8:59:36 AM (No. 1412198)
Wut? They kant reed, rite, spell, do cipherin' or curse-if?
More money to the system!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Northcross 2/26/2023 9:18:24 AM (No. 1412211)
I doubt that the community colleges in that area are much better than the public schools.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 2/26/2023 9:19:16 AM (No. 1412212)
Can you count all your fingers on one hand? That's a pass for calculus.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/26/2023 9:28:47 AM (No. 1412221)
Hey the money grubbing Commies at most Universities will sell grades...slip the prof a few bucks and Viola..A's across the board! How long has this steaming Pile been infesting our Screwels?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 2/26/2023 9:41:27 AM (No. 1412236)
Only half? I'm very surprised at that.
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Unprepared for college classes that have already been dumbed down.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
RWPollock 2/26/2023 10:19:26 AM (No. 1412261)
This is what happens when the focus is on sex organs and not scholastic subject matter. The schools are not for education anymore but for indoctrination. Kids come out of school knowing what pronouns to call a gender-fluid person, but they cannot read or do basic math. If you want your kids to be indoctrinated instead of educated, keep sending them to public schools. If you want them to be educated, send them to a private school where you have input on their education.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
RWPollock 2/26/2023 10:26:47 AM (No. 1412268)
To DiegoDude post:
Interesting that they use a beginning 0 number for remedial courses. I bet this will soon be called racist and white supremacy because it might hurt their ego and feelings by having people easily knowing they are in a remedial course!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/26/2023 10:31:40 AM (No. 1412274)
Remember my first year of college looking at a college course booklet. There were literally dozens of English and Math courses at the high school level and lower. Lots of students failed the entrance exams. This was over 40 years ago at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. This isn't new and it's nationwide.
4 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/26/2023 10:38:49 AM (No. 1412282)
A generation ago it was deemed that everyone must get higher ed. It was part of the fledgling Diversity, Equity and Inclusion mantra. Standards were lowered, courses were dumbed down and everyone passed and graduated. Simultaneously, business started to require a degree for jobs that previously only needed a HS diploma.. That left young people without a potentially good job if they didn't complete college.
So, 'The System' worked and as a bonus, these kids can vote.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/26/2023 10:53:44 AM (No. 1412290)
FTA ... “I don’t think high schools, especially public schools in The Bronx, prepared me enough” for college, said Priscilla Walker, a Bronx mom of two who at 29 is still struggling to earn an associate’s degree from BMCC.
No Priscilla YOU didn't prepare YOU. Go get a job at Subway.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
moebellini3 2/26/2023 1:29:33 PM (No. 1412417)
Fact is, a high school education 60 years ago is the equivalent of any four year degree obtained today. Matter of fact you had better math, reading and English capabilities than kids do today. We even learned a second language along the way. Welcome to diversity, equity and the complete dumbing down of a whole society. Got it.
2 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2023 3:54:26 PM (No. 1412505)
The stud5-90%ents that I knew who selected a degree program in "education" were the dimmest of the dim, in about 85-90% of the ones I knew.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ASAvet 2/26/2023 4:38:38 PM (No. 1412530)
Another glorious success for the Democrat/Communist teacher unions !!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/27/2023 12:14:44 PM (No. 1413048)
And these are the "Leaders" for tomorrow, WE ARE Screwed!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Faithfully 3/1/2023 9:02:52 PM (No. 1415109)
Yes but they know White People bad.
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