Students at the alleged “crown jewel” of the California State University system should not be subjected to Third World learning conditions and environments. Just because these students did not score well enough on the SAT’s or the English Placement Test should not mean that they should have to learn under extremely poor conditions. If anything, these students should be in the premium learning conditions since they have already been labeled as needing extra help. Some of these poor conditions and environment these English 102 students have to go through are: un-air conditioned classrooms; a classroom that can be compared to a prison cell due to the fact that there are no windows; a constant sound of multiple construction workers grinding, smashing, and destroying who knows what on the other side of the front wall; and the building does not even have a restroom facility. All of these students are not paying a low price for attending this school, especially the out of state students. Many of these students could have stayed at home and learned at their local community college with better conditions with a by far cheaper price. All of these problems in combination can make it tough for young college students to learn a language they are obviously already struggling in.
ENGL 102 students suffer in Engineering West