Are General Courses Suffocating Grades
It is no suprise that first year students are required to attend general education classes. Implemented by the Department of Education, these courses are mandatory before diving into what you really came to college for. But have these courses shown nationwide to de-rail focus in students?
General education, more specifically Departmental Prerequisite, is defined as:
“A course which must be taken, or minimum standard (testing) that must be met which does not give remote foundational information towards the focus course”
Similar to the path that high school is paving. Now you are more serious about education, we will forcefully teach it to you again. They are requirements, in other words, that every student must fulfill regardless of their areas of specialty.
Not to mention who the school is hiring to teach these classes, adjunct professors
“Boring, repetitive classes are typically taught by professors hired as adjunct, and have to head over to manage IHOP at 6 P.M.”
Said Shane of Pordo.
And hes right, unprepared and mentally absent professors result in uninterested students playing Candy Crush or watching Greys Anatomy in class. If students do maintain proper attendance, its obvious the subsequent assignments can deflate focus,
social life and cause stress, even depression. Citigroup conducted a study that shows 80% of students work part-time in order to contribute to tuition. Undoubtedly, working on top of classes will negitivly affect a students academic proficiency in a negative way.
Bottom line: Your time is valuable.
With the amount of hard work and money it took to get you in to college, why would you spend even a day doing something you don’t want to do?
Education is very important, without it our nation is doomed. The soul purpose of any University is to educate a student to their full potential. However, studies show amount of work, and new time management skills can drastically de-motivate the generation entering college. Leading to be one of the reason
Over 2/3 of college students drop out before achieving their desired degree.
This is an upsetting number, and led me to look for help on this topic.
That is when I met Shane M. founder of Pordo. He understood this challenge coming into his first year.
“I was astonished with my roommates and friends dropping out before the end of first semester!”
Inspiring him to start: Pordo Academic Exchange. Not only to assist students on continuing their dreams, but to encourage his generation to strive and succeed with accomplishments.
