People who haven’t had the experience of advanced schooling, the terms and concepts used there may just as well be a foreign language or a secret code.

People who haven’t had the experience of advanced schooling, the terms and concepts used there may just as well be a foreign language or a secret code.

The collegiate level of education takes a very surprising jump to many students from our current K-12 education system. Terminology and expectations are on a completely different level than that of which I remember of high school. In our current state of K-12 you simply need to be a warm body in a seat. NO child left behind has not improved the quality of our education system it has only lowered the standards and pushed our children forward. There is no excuse for a student to reach community college level and not be able to read English. Not true? Oh it most certainly is. I am not a teacher just support staff but, my work in education has led me to meet far too many students like this. Is it community colleges job to re-educate these students? Half of a student’s financial aid is being wasted on remedial education. Just to get them to the level where they understand what their college professors are talking about. I think if we compare education quality to that of 20 years ago we will find a very significant drop and as time goes forward we should be improving not declining.