Reply #17: Why should the standard be that all graduates are ready to enter college or trade school [View All]

[pnwmom]

with no remediation? Some students have dyslexia and other learning problems. Some students are cognitively disabled. Some simply have developmental lags in one area or another. Any of these students might have to repeat certain subject areas beyond high school in order to solidify their learning.

A good friend of mine, an Ivy league graduate, had to take remedial math when she was a freshman in college. Algebra just hadn't clicked for her in high school. Neither she nor her high school had failed; she just needed another go at it. And she did fine in college with that course and all her subsequent classwork.

But that was a while ago. Before the testing industry took over and started to make real money.