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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of it may be aging.  Some of it maybe students not working hard enough. None of us has inside knowledge on why the administration ultimately made this decision, so we are largely projecting our own stuff onto it.

Recognizing all of that, I will put out there that I think some educators are too quick to wash their hands of learning loss.  If part of what’s going on is that students did not fully learn the foundational material they needed for orgo before taking the class because of pandemic-related learning gaps, where should that be made up?  The students are in the worst position of anyone to recognize the gaps and address them in advance because they don’t have the foundation to recognize what they are missing.  If substantial portions of the class are coming in with those foundational gaps, is the right answer to just keep doing what you’ve always done and let them fail?  Sure, if all you care about it having your class be a weed out event for prospective med school students.  But if you care about students actually learning orgo, you have to meet them where they are and take responsibility for filling in gaps when you discover them so your students have an opportunity to succeed.  My sense reading the article is that this professor may have been more the former than the latter. [/quote]

If he had dumbed it down they would have been griping because they didn’t do well on the mcat. (Which, by the way, most of the petitioners won’t anyway.) [/quote]

You don’t dumb it down, you just make sure you are supplementing the syllabus you have used for the last 20 years to do a brief review of foundational concepts.[/quote]

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