On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:46:03 +1100, Christian Gerzner
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>It is quite possible for a SCUBA "student" to flunk a course in one
>school, go to the one up the road, and pass.
>
>For whatever reason.
>
>I'd like to think that this is not possible in *proper* Colleges.


You'd like to think whatever you want, but you're ABSOLUTELY
and COMPLETELY WRONG, no matter how you define *proper*.

Your statement only reflected the depth of your naivete' about
"Higher Education" in the USA, or anywhere in the world, for that
matter.



>> FUC 6.2!!.  Passing a college course is like getting an Olympic Medal?
>
>Chuckle.
>
>> That unfortunately is the prevailing mentality in the USA!
>
>Nope, sadly not just the USA. :(


Christian, you have snipped what I wrote to the extent of DISTORTING
and MISREPRESENTING what I had to say!  My line you cited above
was NOT about equating passing a college course to getting an Olympic
Medal.   The mentality I refered to was about the paragraphs you
carelessly snipped, which read:

RF> Yeah, I remember someone once dared to propose that a HIGH SCHOOL
RF> Graduate in the State of NY <...>  should be required to pass
RF> an EIGHTH GRADE exam in English!
RF>
RF> That proposal ITSELF was ridiculous enough!   Why not pass a 12th
RF> Grade Exam in English?
RF>
RF> But the UTMOST ridiculous OUTCOME was that there are people <...>
RF> who <...>  OBJECTED to the fact that a High School Graduate
RF> should be subjected to such "ridiculous high standards".

It was all about "standards" and the inability of the American people
to THINK in terms of setting "realistic standards", and their
inability to admit "failure", no matter what!  THAT was what my
comment was about:

>> That unfortunately is the prevailing mentality in the USA!

It really had nothing to do with "passing a college course" or
"winning an Olympic Medal" in the line you cited me before the \
line above.

English is a tricky language to comprehend, isn't it?   :-)

-- Bob.