I've been thinking and maybe I have been wrong. Since Walcott became chancellor so many kids have walked through those college office doors, kids who never would have done so before. True, they could barely read and write. They knew no arithmetic. They took bogus on line classes, had friends complete computer assignments and got rewarded with parties for just showing up. They believed everyone owed them and that all they had to do was breathe to graduate, but they did graduate and go on to college. Under Walcott, colleges are filled with remedial classes, more than ever before. Few graduate, but hey, he was not a college chancellor so that as not his responsibility.
Under Walcott the college office has been turned into a joke. Even bright kids are not prepared for university study because high school does nothing. To get everyone to pass, courses were watered down to nothing. Kids did not learn study and thinking skills. Passing was a snap, no studying was required. I know so many who flunked courses their freshman year because of this lack of preparedness (and don't forget the ones who failed because they had no business being in college in the first place.)
Then again, there could also be a Dennis Walcott Trailer Park of Education. There is mold, faulty bathrooms, leaky ceilings and plenty of other unsavory conditions. He also excelled in keeping up the quality of the education environment.
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