Unbe-flipping-lievable
Karyn Romeis,
Karyn's erratic learning journey,
May 27, 2011
I should never have made it to university. In grade 12, at Osgoode, I actually failed English (largely because I boycotted many of the tests). In grade 13, which as I mentioned earlier I finished via night school, my grades were good, but not great. The University of Calgary admitted me as a "non-matriculated adult" and made me take remedial math. In an environment where it's all about grades, I would be looking at a long continuation of my career in the food service industry. So I know where people like Karyn Romeis are coming from when they question the reliance on grades to fill increasingly scarce university slots. We don't gain some sort of advantage by making university admission difficult to obtain. We really don't.
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