Thursday, August 8, 2013

Laser Movie Sucks

This movie fails to address the main problem with students coming into Community College. The students coming into Community Colleges have been failed at all levels of education prior to college. The bad habits most students have now were created and developed in schools before college. The passion, will , and foresight we lack (as the movie states) are with these kids long before College. It's like standing idle and watching someone bleed to death for 10 hours and on the 11th hour yell to everyone help. The Cognitive dissonance suffered from the movie makers is unreal confusing expectations with reality. In that College isn't the main problem but just one of few. I believe one shouldn't proclaim there is a problem without offering a solution. The problem is kids aren't ready for college. Students need to get on track in Jr high and High School. They need to put these classes in Jr. High so that you can catch kids earlier.  That's were the focus should be. The dropout rates at UC's are extremely low compared to CC's. There are many reasons for this one is that many students aren't pampered at home and have to deal with trauma daily. Another is kids don't know themselves so they cant begin to know the college system without losing all aspirations and conforming to what society wants from them. All while trying to wrangle their future success by please family or pleasing themselves.

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