Originally Posted by Bostonian
A high school graduate should be able solve problems involving decimals and fractions. If they were having difficulties, as you state, the point was to bring them up to a certain level.

And the point that I'm making is that it seems the school is more interested in making the HS student show up for 3 years out of 4 to a math class, rather than prepare them for the real world.

Presumably, these students passed tests certifying they held the required skills many years before, yet there they are again, taking the same thing every year. Are they struggling in this class because they truly need remediation, or are they struggling because they've quit caring?