Any construction contractor who would build a house by putting up the walls and ceilings before a solid foundation is constructed is asking for trouble.
Yet every semester I run across at least one student who wants to take classes concurrently although one is a prerequisite before the other. Prerequisites should be taken as being some kind of foundation, not as some silly little inconsequential hoop that must be jumped through.
Just give 'em some bogus "life credits" for the prerequisite and let him earn a D+ in the upper-level course.
Posted by: KipEsquire | November 20, 2009 at 08:42 AM