Yet another scam in higher education is “dual-credit courses.” High school students take classes in their high schools and for some incomprehensible reasons these classes are supposed to count towards both high school and college completion. Which is nuts on every possible level.
I’ve been sent a bunch of high-school “syllabi” that I’m supposed to evaluate and say to which of my courses they correspond. It’s a total joke because these are not real college-level syllabi, nor are they supposed to be. All they have is “learning objectives” and diversity statements. There’s nothing about actual material covered. To me, Spanish 101 covers conjugation in the present, object pronouns, verbs like gustar, comparisons and preterite of regular verbs. Everything else is not Spanish 101. I don’t care what “culturally relevant and inclusive projects” they do in high school. If you can’t conjugate in the present and use object pronouns, you haven’t completed Spanish 101 and are not ready to go into 102.
All of this crap exists to pander to parents. They want a shortcut which does not exist. But we are supposed to pretend that it does, and it’s annoying.
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This was supposed to be the same as dual enrollment, even when I was in HS. Even then, it seemed sketchy. I started driving out to the college (from my high school!) to take classes in 11th grade. I had same-age friends taking dual-credit classes at their high school. They were not the same classes, and they were not graded the same way, but we were both getting the same college credit?
I did, btw, get high school credit for those college courses.
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Let them test or portfolio out. Mom ended up in a 300 level Poruguese class that way, I got to skip Freshman drawing.
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Exactly. And we already do that. Which is why I’m saying that this dual-credit crap is all about pandering to anxious parents. If there is actual competence, the students will place out once they arrive on campus.
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