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November 24, 2006, 8:05 am PST
Oh this touches a nerve...
Quote From: wngdpnthr My wife had a similar experience with her high school. She was so poorly prepared for college, especially in math, that she ended up dropping out of college because of math, embarassment, and frustration. She worked a retail job for about 10 years and went back to college at the age of 28, where she finally got the remedial classes she needed to make up for the loss. She has two associate's degrees in electronics and is going for bachelors degrees in history and writing. She would LOVE to sue her former high school. She graduated in 1991 from Irmo HS in South Carolina, supposedly the best high school in the state. I just went into a local convenience store near us the other day and had a conversation with a clerk who just graduated from the local public high school. She is enrolled in a nursing program, RN, which is going to take her three years to finish rather than the regular two. She found out that she has to take remedial classes, not just math but others, because she didn't come out with the necessary credits for her choice of program at the college level. My homeschooled children will have what they need to go into any program they choose. I am making sure of that.
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