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I don't know if there has been a post like this before, but I am starting a new one:) My school is like a war zone. There are casualties left and right. 2 students got booted in just the past week. The most recent was today(didn't pass the math)It's weird....everything always seems fine in classes until the end of a semester. In the last few weeks it seems that students start dropping like flies. Why is that? We started out with 8 males in our class, and now we are down to 3. Our class is beginning to look like a ghost town...Good thing: we get more 1 on 1 time w/our instructors. Bad thing: I miss my former classmates. So, how many students are still standing in your class?
We have lost 6 so far. LVN program. We lost 5 in Fundamentals, 0 in Pharmacology, 1 in med-surg due to injury. The teachers kicked out a student 3 months prior to graduation--didn't like her clinical notebook. They can kick you out just because they say. Kicked another student 5 months prior to graduation--clinical notebook. Notice how the teachers only help the students who know what is going on? Are you taking your class thru college, private school, or adult ed?
I don't know if there has been a post like this before, but I am starting a new one:) My school is like a war zone. There are casualties left and right. 2 students got booted in just the past week. The most recent was today(didn't pass the math)It's weird....everything always seems fine in classes until the end of a semester. In the last few weeks it seems that students start dropping like flies. Why is that? We started out with 8 males in our class, and now we are down to 3. Our class is beginning to look like a ghost town...Good thing: we get more 1 on 1 time w/our instructors. Bad thing: I miss my former classmates. So, how many students are still standing in your class?
You are certainly full of yourself. You are probably one of those students who believes he is smarter than the teacher
well im gonna go ahead and say this.....not everyone is cut out to be a nurse.So i dont mind losing classmates at all,since ive noticed quite a few i would not want working on my loved ones. In short i believe if they do not make it,it was not meant to be.
That kinda irks me. An individual gets into the program, can't hack it, and then gets to take yet another spot in the following year. What if they can't handle the course load again?To me it just sounds like a wasted spot in the class for two years running.
Maybe I'm being too harsh and yes, I'm sure there might be good reasons for this to be allowed but it still prevents others from having a chance sooner rather than later.
Mr._Bill
I understand the frustraton with people being able to fall a class behind. In our school you are allowed to fail. Once. If you fail the same class again, or fail a second class for the first time you are gone.... I know that the schools in our area just took a look at the applicant pool and figured that there are 800+ people who have finished prereq's and are just waiting for a spot, and thi9s is after the schools took into account all of the people who applied to more than one program. I don't know if the rules for repeating classes change, but I hope not. Most of the people who fail don't do so because they can't do it, but because there were persomnal issues that interfered. I have passed all of my classes, but everyone is different, and compassionm and empathy are nursing traits
Most of the people who fail don't do so because they can't do it, but because there were persomnal issues that interfered. I have passed all of my classes, but everyone is different, and compassionm and empathy are nursing traits
I agree. To a point.
Maybe there should be a requirement that, if you were dropped because of personal issues beyond your control, you must provide evidence that the problem/issue has been corrected or is no longer in place before you are provided a "second chance".
Believe me, I worry every day that something might happen and I would be stopped from completing my goal. And if that occurred, I would want that second chance too. But I would also understand that I would need to rectify the situation BEFORE trying again. Proof that I had done so would not be unreasonable, in my opinion. Some people's lives are so full of drama that they will NEVER be a suitable student for ANY school/program, regardless of profession.
Offering a second chance to someone that doesn't have extenuating circumstances but instead is failing due to lack of effort or flat out incompetence is NOT acceptable to me. This is of course excluding the possiblility of personality conflicts with instructors who just might be "out to get you." If you are lazy or unable to handle the material due to intellect or personal motivation then you SHOULDN'T be a nurse. That's my opinion anyways.
My opinon might sound harsh, but I think it is well grounded and true to reality.
Mr._Bill
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That kinda irks me. An individual gets into the program, can't hack it, and then gets to take yet another spot in the following year. What if they can't handle the course load again?
To me it just sounds like a wasted spot in the class for two years running.
Maybe I'm being too harsh and yes, I'm sure there might be good reasons for this to be allowed but it still prevents others from having a chance sooner rather than later.