OK, so out of 150 students a year, only 7 or 8 graduate. Not so bad, right? WRONG. How ridiculous did ANYONE find that article on the only public university in the Nation's Capital? Why is it still in business? For "nontraditional students"? What are nontraditional students? Iguanas, 90 year olds? According to the article, "...many cannot pass a national standardized test of basic high school level reading, writing, and math skills..." WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING IN COLLEGE THEN? Aw, they deserve it, is that it? Because they are alive and breathing, not because they bothered to learn anything in high school, or even in college for that matter. I cannot take credit for this quote, but when this was being discussed around my school and at home, this thought arose: How are you going to be a teacher if you can't learn???????
I get truly sickened by the thought that actual institutions exist as "edifices of higher learning" when in effect, they are no more than pretend places where people can go who did not bother to attain real skills or knowledge, but still claim that they are worthy of a college degree. And the esteemed councilman Marion Barry is totally for this. Let us keep on pretending that these students are learning, pretending that they are in a real, honest-to-God college, and pretending that they deserve to get jobs based on this pretend education. But God forbid we should give them a standardized test where they are put up against others across the nation in other colleges. Oh now the test is racist? Is it going to be that every single time a person from any minority cannot measure up to a "standard" that the standard is racist?
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