"Sean Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Intro courses in the sciences are often intended to weed out the people
There's a *lot* of things wrong with the way schools work. Deliberate "weeding out" is a clear red flag that a school cares more about their own statistics (graduation ratio, etc) than actual education: For any institution that claims to value education, trying to get someone to leave a class, *especially* an introductory class, is completely inexcusable(^1), and IMO should subject them to immediate revocation of their accreditation. But, of course, accreditation itself is completely screwed up too... 1: Imagine if you got a book out at a library, and the library decided you didn't understand it well enough and therefore tried to get you to return it early and then prohibited you from getting out any other books on the topic. It's the same fucking thing...except, with a school, you're paying them tens of thousands of dollars to be told what knowledge you can and can't pursue. And yet somehow, people insist in referring to college as, not only "education" (which would be big enough of a joke), but "*higher* education". Completely pathetic! People who work for, or even willingly go along with, such a machine should be absolutely ashamed.
