I've made a few mistakes in my spelling, and more than a few in my grammar, but I'm not nearly as bad as the people who are supposedly getting an education.
Only 41 percent of graduate students tested in 2003 could be classified as “proficient” in prose—reading and understanding information in short texts—down 10 percentage points since 1992. Of college graduates, only 31 percent were classified as proficient—compared with 40 percent in 1992. “It’s appalling—it’s really astounding,” said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and a librarian at California State University at Fresno. “Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That’s not saying much for the remainder.”
I remember having to correct one page essays from graduate students. Not four or five page essays, ONE PAGE.
DOUBLE SPACED.
TWELVE-POINT FONT.
ONE INCH MARGINS.
And I had to go in, make my corrections and send it back to them.
At this point, if the Army wasn't paying for my college, I wouldn't be going. I would not spend a dime out of my own pocket for it. And I'm not going to waste my time going to a brick-and-mortar school. In short, if it doesn't gain me a skill that I couldn't get from reading online, I'm not paying for it.
Read the whole thing.
Hat tip to Mr. Baker.
2 comments:
The inimitable school district here has the same issue. 67% graduation rate, yet they get uppity when I go to their meetings and ask for 33% of my money back.
I hated the publik skool sistim because I had to survive it. Now that I'm out, and I see just how horribly it is failing a new generation, I hate it even more.
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