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I do think concurrently taking both remedial and transfer level courses are more effective than sole remedial courses but I don’t think this is a problem with the colleges but rather the failures of the k-12 system

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This is eye-opening. Thank you.

Latin not latinx

Can you guys stop with the Lantinx Sounds dumb af

Stop using the term latinX we are Latinos! That includes everyone X is no one. Get it right!

Uh...you realize white students attending community college also have to take remedial courses, right? It's based on a placement test and or SAT/ACT scores, not race. I am as white as they come and I had to take 2 remedial math courses. (And I wasn't even prepared for college algebra at the end of it.) Remedial classes are a problem but it's not a race thing.

I am a Mexican-American/first generation college grad that transferred from a Community College (C.C). I disagree with this video because the placement exam and these courses helped me. I spent two and a half years going from remedial Algebra to Business Calculus 1 and edging out an A! The remedial math helped me build upon a foundational learning block & taught me how to study along the way. As a latino student, who came from low ranked LAUSD High-school, there was nothing more rewarding than studying hard and passing each level of math at Community College based on my transfer plan. I managed to earn A and B letter grades in all my math classes. This video is doing a disservice to Black & Brown students. I have seem every kind of student in these remedial course even asian and white students. These classes are designed to help ALL students learn and strive in our educational pursuits. I am proud to have gone through all that and now I am pursuing my Certified Public Accounting License.

Complete bullshit

This current push to change mathematics education at the community college level is actually depriving our students of color access to potentially rewarding careers in the STEM fields. The intent is to place (read as "force-place") students, who are already underrepresented within the STEM fields, outside of STEM courses. Don't believe these C.A.P. folks AT ALL. This is actually going to systematize racist policy and widen the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots." A very simple thought experiment reveals the flaw in the C.A.P. mindset. If you are a high school student from an affluent area, your math curriculum is likely going to prepare you well enough for college-level math; however, due to many funding issues, inner-city high schools (which predominantly serve our black and Latinx students) don't have the funds or resources to compete with the affluent schools in this regard. Moreover, inner-city kids have a TON of other distractions that make it nearly impossible to get the same education as their affluent counterparts. If these C.A.P. folks had ever taught in a non-affluent area or, like I do, in a racially and socioeconomically diverse area, they would never support such policy because they would immediately understand how this approach systematizes racism. Think of it this way: your child, who went through four years of high school (where only two of those years have required mathematics which does not typically focus on preparation for STEM), arrives at a community college. One of two scenarios is going to happen in these times of C.A.P.-enforced policy. Either (1) they are tracked immediately into a non-STEM stat course and their future has been decided by (wait for it) a policy developed by government officials (who are predominantly white non-educators influenced by a numbers game needing to improve "success rates"), or (2) they are placed into a college-level STEM course in mathematics where they will now have less than a 50% chance of passing. Many of these students (regardless of race) have weak skills in mathematics, but we (at the college level) are no longer allowed to place your precious child into a class below transfer level. Thus, your child's first impression of college-level mathematics is likely to be frustrating. The professors would LOVE to have students in this situation step back to fill in the gaps that the high school classes left out, but we are not allowed to do this without running into some violation of AB 705 (a TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY racist assembly bill). This systemizes the process of keeping black and Latinx students out of STEM. All of this is TERRIBLE policy; however, the squeaky wheels get the grease, and those who would water down math education, lower standards, and assume that our black and Latinx students cannot succeed in these fields win. I get it if you are the RARE student who knows their life trajectory right out of high school... fine, take stats, get your degree, and start an awesome career; however, I know from experience that young adults need time to explore fields of interest and this current policy of tracking them OUT of fields (like STEM) from the start of their career does nothing to change the euro-centric landscape of the STEM fields. Want to make a change? Get more students OF ALL backgrounds (representative of our diverse society) properly trained in mathematics, science, logic, and critical thinking. Stop believing that these students cannot be successful by making these racist policies. I yearn for the day when my math department is representative of the wonderful diversity in our nation; however, this policy promoted by AB 705, the C.A.P., and the producers of this video will only reinforce the current racial distribution in STEM. No matter what we, as educators, say, they will not listen. Their Brave New World is actually just furthering the current classist and racist system in which we live.

This is an infomercial mostly likely affiliated with the C.A.P. folks. You would have to wonder about an organization that would deny students an opportunity to enroll in courses they feel they need to succeed which impacts students of color (Black and Latinx) the most as they are the least prepared. Students of color are less likely to enroll in High School courses that prepares them for college work especially in STEM fields. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latino-gap-stem-workforce-not-narrowing-pew-study-finds-rcna571 As a Latin male, I took "High School Math" as a senior where we practiced purchasing plastic fruit, added the cost of the fruit, and wrote checks for the total every day. That was my High School Math requirement that enabled me to graduate. That was my "pathway" back in the day which required me to remediate in college. I am grateful for the opportunity remediation gave me as now I teach Mathematics. And, be leery of their statistics, as they use convenient samples to push their arguments. I guarantee those Statistic success rates are not what your districts are experiencing. In fact, ask them about the ratio of throughput to non-throughput for their Statistics courses. Although more students have made the transition, much more have not. The numbers are worse than ever. In a certain Southern California district, you are more likely to survive the Titanic than get through Statistics under AB705 for Black and Latinx students. And this is with all the support. It's a bit off topic, but this video demonstrates what it's like to teach Mathematics these days under AB705. ua-cam.com/video/Zh3Yz3PiXZw/v-deo.html I wonder how long it will take them to delete my comment? Today is July 9, 2021

Lots of missing information here- I realize this video specifically focused on math prerequisites, so I will focus on English prerequisites because AB705, the law mentioned, addresses both. Some colleges have only ONE or TWO prerequisite English classes before moving on to English Composition (the transfer level course one needs to either graduate with an AA from a community college or transfer to a four-year). Why do community colleges offer preparatory courses? Because some students do not know how to write a coherent sentence, some need help with analysis, some never learned how to write a formal college essay (we need to have a conversation about poor high school districts!), and some have taken years off of school and WANT to learn college writing skills. I'm a proud Brown woman, and I would have loved the opportunity to build writing skills with a caring and thoughtful writing instructor who understood social justice issues. So before you get righteous about Black and Brown folks being held back because of preparatory courses, please consider how many community colleges are actually preparing students to succeed.

I was one of these students but honestly I feel like they helped me. Those gaps will definitely get exposed at a 4 year school down the line anyway

This is, to quote David Zisser, "heartening." I wish I could give more, but I will give to PA.

I'm so glad this session was recorded. Yo fui a esta precentacion y estuvo bien informativo. cuando lo hicieron en una escuela que estuve no estaba tan informativa. No puedo crer que en la escuela que estoy aurtia apenas lo estan intrudiciendo. creo que tenemos hasta el 2017. Ojala que los padres pueden obeter esta informacio. lo voy a compartir. Gracias!!

Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thank you!

NIcely done!

Sounds like a good idea!