Reply to Harvard Instituting Remedial Math Class

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Harvard Instituting Remedial Math Class "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lack of foundational skills does not equal inability to learn. Over half of American kids go to public schools with varying degrees of competence in teaching.

Kids who have a great capacity to learn are sometimes limited in who teaches them leading to graduation in high school without the necessary foundational skills.

Harvard-type students will learn quickly regardless of foundational skills and good on Harvard for recognizing that students with high potential may not all come out equal after high school.[/quote]

Kids have FOUR years of undergraduate education to be exposed to top level faculty and rigorous coursework.  If someone "lacks foundational skills," they are taking a spot that would have been used to much greater effect by someone who was prepared and able.  Should we also admit illiterate kids who we somehow have determined are really, really smart down deep and then teach them to read while at Harvard?

Should these kids' academic lives be over if they lack foundational skills? No.  But at some point, we should say that it is not good for our society to use spots at elite colleges for people who cannot take full advantage of the opportunity.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics