>Bad assumption. In fact, the first two years of college are now wasted in many institutions trying to bring 'freshman' and 'sophmores' up to HS graduate level. They usually fail, and the kids drop out.
Oh? Seems to be a universal problem. Here in Bolivia, universities offer special courses to bring high-school graduates up-do-date in subjects they are supposed to have learned in HS, like basic algebra, or English. The course can be waived, though, if the student demostrates profficiency in an exam.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
