Dear Editor:
I felt that this article about raising admission standards and cutting remedial classes was very interesting. The article was about who would be affected if admissions were raised and remedial classes were cut.
However I was somewhat displeased with the fact that the article did not mention how this would affect minorities.
The article does mention how it would affect adult students who have been out of high school, but certainly it will affect more than just those students. As we all know, high school students are young adults that do more than their fair share of “messing around.”
To a freshman in high school, college is a world away. Treva Berryman said it best when she so called “added hope that high school teachers would rise to meet the challenge and prepare students to pass.”
I guess her hoping will only affect herself. Education in Tennessee and everywhere is a big issue. Everyone wants to raise the quality of education at whatever cost. The cost, unfortunately, is the real issue, and that is why these changes are a “strong possibility.”
The state of Tennessee needs to fix its public school system first before it can raise or cut anything. If they don’t, we too will be left hoping like Mrs. Berryman.
Yvonne Martinez
Political Science
