<story><title>What&apos;s Wrong with Students?</title><url>http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/12/whats_wrong_wit_24.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I went to Catholic college prep high school in the 1990s. My kids, public high school (albeit: a suburban public high school) over the last 6 years. I had to write a shitload of papers. My kids have to write a shitload of papers. If anything: their education is more rigorous than was mine. If my kids get(&amp;#x2F;got) &amp;quot;cats&amp;quot; vs. &amp;quot;cats&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; incorrect, they&amp;#x27;ll get dinged for it.&lt;p&gt;I kind of want to call bullshit on this analysis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mintplant</author><text>Yep. Relatively recent product of the American public high school system here [0], and soon-to-be product of the public university system. If anything I had to write many more papers in my high school classes than in my college ones. I don&amp;#x27;t know what planet these guys are living on.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Well, the night before, I studied probably pretty close to an hour.&amp;quot; And with that the scales fell from my eyes.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;An hour? Do you realize that when I was in college it was common to start studying for big exams a week or more before?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I suspect the professor has forgotten just how much college students have on their plates at any given time. An Intro to Philosophy class may not be everyone&amp;#x27;s top priority.&lt;p&gt;[0] Starting in Louisiana and finishing in California.</text></comment>
<story><title>What&apos;s Wrong with Students?</title><url>http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/12/whats_wrong_wit_24.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>I went to Catholic college prep high school in the 1990s. My kids, public high school (albeit: a suburban public high school) over the last 6 years. I had to write a shitload of papers. My kids have to write a shitload of papers. If anything: their education is more rigorous than was mine. If my kids get(&amp;#x2F;got) &amp;quot;cats&amp;quot; vs. &amp;quot;cats&amp;#x27;&amp;quot; incorrect, they&amp;#x27;ll get dinged for it.&lt;p&gt;I kind of want to call bullshit on this analysis.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>analog31</author><text>Just want to chime in: Likewise with my kids. They&amp;#x27;ve been writing paper after paper since middle school. Both have been taught a lot about good writing and critical thought. Other subjects are similarly rigorous. My kids study more in high school than I studied in college.&lt;p&gt;With that said, there&amp;#x27;s certainly a disparity in education quality depending on where you live, and how affluent you are. In addition, for kids who attend college, there&amp;#x27;s a disparity across departments and majors based on the high school background of the students. It is possible that for whatever reason, the author of that article ended up assigned to teaching a &amp;quot;fluff&amp;quot; course at their college.</text></comment>