At 9:21 AM -0500 11/2/01, tasha howe wrote: >....Now I have to admit that >when I taught community college, my dept. chair warned me that routinely 1/3 >of the class would fail and to not feel bad about that. She told me to focus >on the 2/3 who tried, who did their work, etc. So if you are at a community >college, you have a more challenging population that often has so many other >issues that school cannot be a top priority.
There's a very basic point here. Most of us are working at schools that are functionally open enrollment. We have very limited admission requirements (in practice if not in theory). We are seeing students who 50 years ago would not have even considered college, or been considered by colleges. There will be some cases were the mountain is just too high, and the competing factors (jobs, families, indaequate education) too great for even the best shaper of studenting. This is a necessary consequence of admitting any student who can cough up the tuition. * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University, Mankato * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html * --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
