http://blog.caljacobson.com/2008/04/01/and-then-i-was-screaming-at-my-radio/ Breathtaking in its unremarkability. Fri, 21 May 2010 11:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.caljacobson.com/2008/04/01/and-then-i-was-screaming-at-my-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Phileosophos Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:17:42 +0000 http://blog.caljacobson.com/2008/04/01/and-then-i-was-screaming-at-my-radio/#comment-92 The only thing you failed to mention is how incomprehensible it is that so many students are still failing *after* the standards have been lowered to the point where only the barest levels of competence are required in any subject. As a former college professor, I can tell you that many of the freshman I taught were not functioning at an eighth-grade level in basic mathematics, English (grammar or writing), or pretty much anything else. The only thing you failed to mention is how incomprehensible it is that so many students are still failing *after* the standards have been lowered to the point where only the barest levels of competence are required in any subject. As a former college professor, I can tell you that many of the freshman I taught were not functioning at an eighth-grade level in basic mathematics, English (grammar or writing), or pretty much anything else.

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