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MADem

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6. Get the teaching assistants from the larger schools--an online course can originate from anywhere.

Reply to HiPointDem (Reply #5)

Sun May 26, 2013, 07:20 AM

May 2013

A community college may not have grad students, but the larger schools that are part of the state system will.

Plenty of basic courses are pretty much cut-and-dried...essential English, math, science classes--it's not like there are a dozen answers to a math problem.

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Should Wealthier Students Get to Jump the Line For College Classes? [View all] Addison May 2013 OP

No on point May 2013 #1

No. Starry Messenger May 2013 #2

What horseshit. Put more classes online. Lots of classes don't need teachers overseeing the MADem May 2013 #3

it's community college. they don't have graduate teaching assistants. and the in-demand HiPointDem May 2013 #5

Get the teaching assistants from the larger schools--an online course can originate from anywhere. MADem May 2013 #6

the high demand courses aren't the basic classes. and the teaching assistants from 4 HiPointDem May 2013 #7

Yeah, but everybody has to take basic classes, and if you can shift your teaching dollars MADem May 2013 #8

wealthy people don't go to community colleges. pushing more 'basic' courses to online just HiPointDem May 2013 #9

Oh yes they do! MADem May 2013 #10

no, you're accepting the frame of 'financial crisis'. once you do so, the only 'solution' is cost- HiPointDem May 2013 #11

As opposed to your solution...which is....? MADem May 2013 #12

the only real, pragmatic one, & the only one that ever works. HiPointDem May 2013 #13

Well, that wasn't terribly elucidative. MADem May 2013 #14

no. HiPointDem May 2013 #4

not just no, gejohnston May 2013 #15