What a crock of excrement. Universities may drop algebra graduation requirement because students find algebra too difficult - American Thinker
NPR Kansas recently reported: “About one in three Kansas students fails college algebra the first time around. Some take it several times before they pass. Others get so frustrated that they drop out altogether. And that cuts into university graduation rates.”
Apparently they are not worried about cutting into the worth of a college degree.
But "you're bad at math" you complain. Then maybe you are not cut out for a college degree. And before you claim that see, You're Not Bad At Math, You're Just Lazy.
And if we let the people who are "bad at math" slide, then what? People who are bad at critical thinking? Should people who can't write a coherent sentence get a college degree? Maybe we should just issue a degree to anyone who pays, and doesn't bother to study anything.
I thought I had to pass both algebra and geometry to graduate from high school, but then I went to high school in the dark ages before Al Gore invented the Internet. (It was still known as ARPANET.)
The future is stupid.
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