I'm sorry that you were not able to understand any of my previous posts. It must be my fault for failing to write more clearly. I will try again. Here are three points--it is all I have time for now. If you are having trouble understanding them, let me know, and I will try to explain it in other words.More than 40% people fail the driving test.
More than 30% people fail the high school.
Close to 10% fail the US immigration test.
Why is it that the same population takes scuba and achieves a near 100% pass rate? Are we all naturally inclined for scuba diving more so than driving a car or doing arithmetic? Or is it because dive courses are designed to create customers for dive gear and that is why standards are written to ensure that everyone passes?
1. Traditional education uses a system where they teach you for a specific length of time, test you, and then assign grades. Scuba instruction teaches you for as long as it takes to get you to meet the standards. Thus, in traditional educational programs, students who do not meet standards at the specified time will fail, whereas in scuba students who do not meet standards are given additional time until they do meet standards.
2. Students who fail traditional educational programs usually do so for reasons related to motivation. When I explained this originally, I estimated that this was the case with at least 75% of the failures. In both high school and college, this includes students who absolutely do not want to be there but are forced to attend through mandatory attendance laws, students who are heavily involved in drugs and alcohol, migrants who move from place to place as they follow crop picking schedules (I once had a student fail my class--and count on my records--who attended exactly one day, a day in which we gave a writing test on which he did not write a single word), mentally ill students, severely impaired students, etc. In contrast, scuba students are almost primarily academically capable adults who are motivated to do well in the course and who will do have none of those aforementioned problems.
3. Students who fail classes in high school and college frequently do not have the required prerequisite skills for the course because they did not learn what they should have learned in previous classes. A student entering a calculus class who did not learn the necessary math skills in a previous pre-calculus class will struggle. In OW instruction, pretty much the only prerequisite skill is that you need to be able to swim (not all that well) and be able to read at the 5th grade level. Yes, the OW course is easy enough for a 10-year old to pass it. Is it surprising that a class of students ranging from high school graduates to college professors might find the work relatively easy?