Approximately 80 percent of NYC high school grads can’t read well enough for community college

Eric Owens

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has built quite a legacy for himself cracking down on soda, salt and, just the other day, loud ear buds.   Nevertheless, as CBS New York reports, Bloomberg might want to spare a few minutes to focus on this shocking statistic: Almost 80 percent of all New York City high school graduates who want to enroll in the City University’s community college system must first relearn basic reading, writing and math.

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All told, approximately 11,000 would-be students are required to take remedial courses each year.  The problem has gotten so bad and institutionalized that City University system officials have introduced a program called CUNY Start that provides inexpensive immersion classes for students who managed to graduate high school without mastering basic skills......

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My Take - "Students... managed to graduate high school witout mastering basic skills"....really?  How did they "manage" to graduate without those skills?  Oh.....wait..... I know, I know.  They graded themsleves.  Right?  Isn't that the way it must have been?  After all - no competent teacher whould give a passing grade to a student that didn't earn it - would they?  Public education is a disgrace, teachers over all are a disgrace, teacher's unions are a corrut disgrace, government bureaucrats overseeing all of this are a disgrace, and the public is to blame! 

There is one consoling note though.  The unions have practically bankrupted the school systems and have protected lazy, incompetent and intellectually inferior teachers to the point it's obvious to the most casual observer, and as a result the time for retribution is nigh! 

Let's try to get this right.  If these people were turning out nuts and bolts instead of students - manufacturers would reject them at the loading dock.