Students Shouldn’t Meet Real Standards for the First Time at 18
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Some students don’t meet a real math class until college.
Before that, everything had cushions.
There’s corrections.
There’s extra credit.
The review sheet looks
just like the test.
There’s partial credit for almost every single line you write down…
Even if you have no idea what you’re doing.
And then they hit a course where the professor is a little bit more…
Some might say, hard-ass,
but I’d say honest.
There’s no extra credit.
There are no review sheets that tell you exactly what’s gonna be on the test.
You don’t get partial credit just for trying – you get it for results, for making real successful progress.
There’s no rescue built into the grading policy. And now…
The student thinks that college math is just impossible.
And yeah, maybe it’s challenging.
But really what they’re feeling is that the rigor and accountability just arrived all at once.
Maybe it’s just me…
But I don’t think students should
meet real standards
for the first time at 18.
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