So why do college students need remedial math?

Per article “College tries to meet changing needs of students” in Daily Inter Lake on March 26, it seems to me the larger question would be, Why are college-bound students in need of remedial MATH classes?

Is there some failure in the education system that students don’t have the necessary tools to get into higher education? I’m concerned as a taxpayer, with a large portion of my taxes going to education, that these students don’t know math.

Maybe we should be more concerned about what’s going on in the primary education system that puts students in the college system that don’t know math. Maybe we should address the lower education and get that right before we have our college professors teaching remedial math?

Is it me or am I missing something? Thanks for letting me vent, just another slog paying a lot of taxes and not sure if they are being spent responsibly. P.S.: I liked Frank Miele’s “2 cents” column on Sunday. Of course we should buy the paper!

Lenon is a resident of Kalispell