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Remedial Math

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I’m not in the least surprised. Only those who work in education know that there is a large number of people who will never be able to conduct this type of operation. Everybody else isn’t allowed to know this.

It’s not such people’s fault any more as my eye color is mine. It’s completely physiological and cannot be remediated. We are torturing such people because we decided that intellectual capacity is a moral and not a physical category. They don’t need remediation or college. They need good jobs and dignified lives.

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    This is a first grade of elementary school material and beyond remediation. Are they admitting people to UCSD who cannot read?

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    Random reader

    What I actually find the most disturbing is that from the attached chart, there are Mathematics majors taking remedial Math.

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      Yes. I don’t know about this university, but at mine we are explicitly prohibited from advising students to drop a course. The idea that somebody simply can’t ever be successful in a discipline should not be uttered. We all pretend that if people aren’t acing Calc IV, it’s because the professors are bad. No other explanation is allowed.

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    A few years ago, I was contacted by a girl from my elementary school. Long story short, there’s a Facebook group where most people I went to elementary and middle school with (this was overseas) congregate online. I was curious to see how everyone was doing and was for some reason (which doesn’t speak well of my young self’s awareness) shocked to see that the kids who were considered academically hopeless (as in not bright and always receiving poor grades) were now grown, happy, and very productive members of society. I remember how much teachers shamed and ridiculed them and, of course, this attitude got adopted by the classmates. (It was the system where everyone’s grades after every test were called out loudly by the teachers in decreasing order, so those getting Ds and Fs would sweat for 10 min waiting for their shame to be broadcast yet again). In reality, there was nothing wrong with these kids, they were just not academically gifted, and I’m guessing a few might have had dyslexia or dyscalculia. These kids grew up to be blue-collar workers and tradespeople with families and full lives… And I thought, perhaps for the first time (mostly because I rarely think back on those days), how awful school must’ve been for them, to be so summarily dismissed year after year by persons of authority and most peers. I was always friendly but aloof with these kids, but now wish I could go back and do more.

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    ShadowsCollide

    As someone who works in education, this doesn’t surprise me. I totally suck at math and even I knew the answer immediately, it’s disturbing how many people in college can’t answer correctly. I’ve seen loads of high school students who can barely read, do simple math, write cursive or even hand write neatly, who don’t know the capital of their state, can’t identify any President but Trump or Obama and yet believe the most inane conspiracy theories.

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    My comment got cut off. These students would be much better off in a vocational program where they learned to fix things or some sort of trade or even how to work in retail, a lot of people are not meant for college or even high school. There ought to be no shame in honest work if one isn’t cut out for college, working retail or being a janitor or any other blue collar job is honorable.

    My older brother used to be a Navy recruiter before becoming an instructor at a Naval school and the lack of aptitude in many high school students appalled him. He encountered students who literally didn’t know the capital of Virginia, their home state, had no idea who George Washington or Thomas Jefferson were, had trouble counting and only wanted to join the military to shoot guns. He hated recruiting and dealing with such kids and it’s disturbing that these are the sort who want to join the military, they’re too dull witted and unstable for military service

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    None of us want intelligence to limit another’s ability any more than any other physical disability. Jordan Peterson has talked about this difficult issue, according to him the American military does not accept people with IQ’s lower than 83. And sadly discussed his own personal largely unsuccessful attempts to find and maintain employment for those in the lower IQ range, and suggests that this may bes a problem for perhaps as many as 10% of the general population.

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