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- Subject: Re: (Fwd: *C&CD*) Do colleges require only first-year writing? (8)
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- One may
- >argue that students who attend the ivies are better prepared (and of course
- >they are) than the generally working class students--the ones who go to
- >the cheaper schools, but I wonder if another social imperative is at
- >work here?
- >Irv
-
- "Better prepared for whose what?" might be another way to ask the question
- and open the issue of the "social imperative" to the question of "Whose?"
- as well.
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- robt
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