"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "retard" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:13:07 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >>> "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) >> >> In fact many schools have made the courses much easier nowadays to get >> better statistics. The graduation ratio doesn't matter that much if it's >> a public school - they get funding based on the amount of people who have >> graduated. I think this model is much more common in Europe, at least. > > It all depends on things like what metric they're going for and how they > expect things to work, but it almost always (if not always) boils down to > being insincere or otherwise disrespectful to the students. A few > examples: > > 1. Public colleges these days, at least in the US, ... >So, if they weed out students in introductory classes, they hope that those >students (who are likely to be "undecided" majors anyway), will be pushed >towards the areas they can sail through the easiest (not necessarily what >they would actually like the most or be best served by), which maximizes >the throughput of their revolving-doors.
This also allows them to get by easier with mediocre teachers.
