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Originally posted by Colin@Feb 6 2004, 11:52 AM
I had a few college professors who though every kid in the world should learn a year's worth of physics. Most professors probably feel the same way about their chosen field. Not me. Some people just don't care about physics. Let them be. You don't exactly learn a lot of important skills for life in physics 101.
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I agree. My kid took AP calculus but I barely made it out trig, lol! Had they required anything past trig to graduate from HS, I'd STILL be there
I also think a lot of college time is wasted on things that should already be known.
College, at least here, is running about $11K a year for in-state tuition, room, food and books.
The first 1 or 2 years are spent teaching what SHOULD have been learned in HS.
Why? Why are parents and/or the government (in forms of grants, low interest loans, scholarships) paying big $$$ to teach kids what they should have already learned?
On the other hand, when I enrolled in college, I made the mistake of taking all "major level" courses for my psychology major. I was taking 300-500 class levels the two years I was there which now won't transfer to another college. But I tried to take public health 101, algebra 101, english 101, etc. but I was bored to tears as I'd already learned it.....but they were required for graduation. Why? :angry:
And I won't even get into asking the question "Why does our GA scholarship pay for kids to take remedial english in college?".
