I actually did my first year at a community college and transferred to skip a lot of that Freshman BS. Even continued to take classes there occasionally and transfer them. The school did not like this, but the state had set out rules for transfer credit and since both were state public schools they couldn't do anything about it. Community college didn't care what I signed up for, if there was a requirement they would just waive it because I asked in an e-mail. I bought all my books on eBay mostly. After my first year I'd wait until two weeks in to buy a book at all to make sure they were going to use it. I worked full time the entire 6 years it took me to finish and paid as I went in cash (well, checks), and every dollar was mine to scrutinize.
Spent a lot of time fighting with them, but I knew the rules and abused them and since it was a small state school they didn't fight as much as a big name place. I had one professor tell me he'd never seen anyone play the "college game" like I did, and it was more in a way of respect as he was a pretty good guy.
Skipped Algebra too, I was always good at math anyway and I'd taken Calculus in high school. I wish I'd have tested out of English as well. That was a total joke class. I used to write my papers like midnight the night before, almost always got goot grades on them. I remember a few times they made us review each other's paper and I saw why. There was so much just technically (i.e. grammar) wrong with the paper I reviewed that just doing that was enough.
Honestly, I have disdain for most of the traditional education system in general. The core of that disdain isn't the woke-ness or CRT either. It's the way they teach and expect learning of things. It's even more confusing now it seems. I helped one of my cousins with their Algebra last year and I couldn't tell what the hell they were trying to get them to do. Some weird new method they keep making up to try to make math easy or whatever and it's convoluted. I was always the family math guru I guess and I get along really well with my cousins, so they get me to help. After like an hour I had her understanding it pretty well. Then I find out later she missed some points on a test for "doing it the wrong way." Good thing I don't live in town I might have wanted to go light that stupid math teacher up. We are talking about middle school Algebra. Simple stuff.
You can't teach math to low IQs, but you can mess up the teaching order and make the subject convoluted to reduce the understanding of the higher IQs. It's the only way equity will be reached, and it's the what they're going for.
I remember a study linked to reddit a couple of years back that bgragged about how their method is more equitable, and digging into the data it became obvious the stronger kids were doing worse.
One of my first red pills, it was around then I understood the ideology is evil, not just misguided.
I actually did my first year at a community college and transferred to skip a lot of that Freshman BS. Even continued to take classes there occasionally and transfer them. The school did not like this, but the state had set out rules for transfer credit and since both were state public schools they couldn't do anything about it. Community college didn't care what I signed up for, if there was a requirement they would just waive it because I asked in an e-mail. I bought all my books on eBay mostly. After my first year I'd wait until two weeks in to buy a book at all to make sure they were going to use it. I worked full time the entire 6 years it took me to finish and paid as I went in cash (well, checks), and every dollar was mine to scrutinize.
Spent a lot of time fighting with them, but I knew the rules and abused them and since it was a small state school they didn't fight as much as a big name place. I had one professor tell me he'd never seen anyone play the "college game" like I did, and it was more in a way of respect as he was a pretty good guy.
Skipped Algebra too, I was always good at math anyway and I'd taken Calculus in high school. I wish I'd have tested out of English as well. That was a total joke class. I used to write my papers like midnight the night before, almost always got goot grades on them. I remember a few times they made us review each other's paper and I saw why. There was so much just technically (i.e. grammar) wrong with the paper I reviewed that just doing that was enough.
Honestly, I have disdain for most of the traditional education system in general. The core of that disdain isn't the woke-ness or CRT either. It's the way they teach and expect learning of things. It's even more confusing now it seems. I helped one of my cousins with their Algebra last year and I couldn't tell what the hell they were trying to get them to do. Some weird new method they keep making up to try to make math easy or whatever and it's convoluted. I was always the family math guru I guess and I get along really well with my cousins, so they get me to help. After like an hour I had her understanding it pretty well. Then I find out later she missed some points on a test for "doing it the wrong way." Good thing I don't live in town I might have wanted to go light that stupid math teacher up. We are talking about middle school Algebra. Simple stuff.
You can't teach math to low IQs, but you can mess up the teaching order and make the subject convoluted to reduce the understanding of the higher IQs. It's the only way equity will be reached, and it's the what they're going for.
I remember a study linked to reddit a couple of years back that bgragged about how their method is more equitable, and digging into the data it became obvious the stronger kids were doing worse.
One of my first red pills, it was around then I understood the ideology is evil, not just misguided.
Yeah, very much comes off as that. I guess equity has really always meant drag everyone down to a lower level.