And I totally get the education thing, that is one of the huge advantages of choices of colleges, because so many of us are looking for different things.
Sigh, no, you really don't appear to. Because of course I agree everyone should have the advantage of choices...BUT, the problem is if you can't afford to go to a Colorado College and have to go to a state school such as University of Kansas...and you happen to have an undiagnosed learning disability that you've been compensating for years with - you'll do miserably, be lost in the system, maybe even told to go to Community College - and why? Because they rely on multiple choice computerized testing and lectures, and tests - which I'm sorry is NOT teaching. People can do that online and are. Or you can just read a book and teach yourself. They rely on it because they have huge classes and can't grade 100 essays or papers. So no, if it were as simple as "choices" it would not annoy me. It is about how the educational system is structured. Similar issues with a reliance on standardized testing - determining a student's success with a multiple choice test is stupid. So much is based on memorization and very little on "critical" thinking.
Anyhow - that's an example of my rant. It's hard to understand - but it has a lot to do with what I went through in high school and law school, also what my brother went through and the reason he pays a small fortune each year to send his child to Montessori and wouldn't teach a public school with a ten-foot pole. We both had to teach ourselves math - because of this horrendous practice. And it is one of the many reasons so many students aren't learning.
Here endeth...the rant. ;-)
Just didn't want you to think it's about variety or something like that. No - it's about the multiple choice testing and lecture method - the bane of my school existence.
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Sigh, no, you really don't appear to. Because of course I agree everyone should have the advantage of choices...BUT, the problem is if you can't afford to go to a Colorado College and have to go to a state school such as University of Kansas...and you happen to have an undiagnosed learning disability that you've been compensating for years with - you'll do miserably, be lost in the system, maybe even told to go to Community College - and why? Because they rely on multiple choice computerized testing and lectures, and tests - which I'm sorry is NOT teaching. People can do that online and are.
Or you can just read a book and teach yourself. They rely on it because they have huge classes and can't grade 100 essays or papers.
So no, if it were as simple as "choices" it would not annoy me.
It is about how the educational system is structured. Similar issues with a reliance on standardized testing - determining a student's success with a multiple choice test is stupid. So much is based on memorization and very little on "critical" thinking.
Anyhow - that's an example of my rant. It's hard to understand - but it has a lot to do with what I went through in high school and law school, also what my brother went through and the reason he pays a small fortune each year to send his child to Montessori and wouldn't teach a public school with a ten-foot pole. We both had to teach ourselves math - because of this horrendous practice. And it is one of the many reasons so many students aren't learning.
Here endeth...the rant. ;-)
Just didn't want you to think it's about variety or something like that. No - it's about the multiple choice testing and lecture method - the bane of my school existence.