Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
<nodding> I was floored the first time it was none-to-subtly suggested to me that I just needed to "take the students as they come to" me... (this from my dean)

uh.... wait... a... minute... remind me again what "prerequisite" means, exactly, to YOU??" shocked I can't teach advanced chemistry to students who have no grasp at all on basic algebra, and it is GROSSLY unfair to the well-prepared students in those courses to expect that I should.

OK, I know I'm veering off path here, but this made me think of how difficult it must be for some of our elementary school teachers when we ask them to "take our kids as they come to them" (advanced, in the case of our GT kiddos)... Of course, the problem is reversed, but....