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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College is the new high school.  Kids coming in are like middle school students from a decade or two ago.  Poor reading and writing skills.  Want to do corrections and have trouble with deadlines.  Sure COVID made it worse but was getting progressively worse before COVID.  I chalk it up to the advent of everyone getting a participation trophy.  [/quote]

Not all of them. My son went to a Catholic high school. The only change made by his school during Covid was that finals were optional for two years (and if you took them and they lowered your grade, you were stuck with it). He is an excellent writer. If something was more than a day late, he got a zero. There were no retakes and the lowest grade you could get was a zero, not a 50%. You are describing students coming from public schools where these policies were in place. [/quote]

Similar only at my sons' Catholic HS there were no optional finals for two years.  Things were the same, tests still required, etc.[/quote]

Our public school isn't anything like the caricature the PP is painting either.  [b]They are better prepared for college academically than ever before.[/b]  I think less selective colleges are seeing a blip in skills since the pandemic though--as those undergraduates come through.[/quote]

I could not agree more. I was top of my class, and I'm constantly thinking how mediocre I would be in this day and age. [/quote]

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