Officials: Most NYC High School Grads Need Remedial Help Before Entering CUNY Community Colleges
10th March 2013
Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.
In the Good Old Days, schools taught facts and skills; primary among those skills was literacy and numeracy, the ability to read and write and do basic arithmetic.
Once progressives got hold of the schools, however, they were changed into vehicles for social engineering, to produce the New Soviet Man progressive ideal of the caring and tolerant subject citizen, who feels good about himself (and herself) and strives to produce that same good feeling in others. The original function of schooling, however, got lost along the way.
I remember myself when I graduated from high school. I didn’t feel very good about myself — the nuns saw to that — but by God I could read — the nuns saw to that, as well.
Sometimes the old ways are best.