On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:26:28 -0400, Paul wrote:

#Paul wrote:
NY wrote:
It was quite a shock to read something which was *so* illiterate from
someone who would have passed his A levels to get to university ...

When I went though secondary school, it was not uncommon for pupils on
the science/maths side of the distribution to have dropped any subject
that required them to write essays; just as the other "humanities"
group had dropped science and maths subjects as soon as possible;
naturally, this greatly exacerbated the weaknesses of both groups.

#Paul

But you know why this is.

It's not rocket science.

A humanities professor, by design, cannot give a mark higher than C to a
STEM student. The STEM students know this.

In my case, it was the way the school worked. They had the old fashioned
notion that 'arts' and 'science' were so different that no-ne could do
both.

There were different sixth form groups afor arts and sciences. And they
were timetabled against each other.



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