Crowder College McDonald County

As a Bachelor’s graduate from Missouri Southern, my instructors were generous with sharing their knowledge. Instructors evaluated students fairly based on their participation and their understanding of the materials taught.nnA member of my immediate family attended Crowder College at McDonald County. I was abhorred by the treatment she received there. Her first semesters there went by smoothly, but during her second semester, a certain instructor seemed to have it out for her. Due to the system the instructors are allowed to grade by (which grants them the ability to throw out the questions they choose), her successes were constantly marginalized. If she tested over a section and scored better than other select students, certain questions were throw out in a way that the select students made a better grade. This wasn’t on just some occasion, but every time. She might score a 75/100 (failing grade) and a student beside her would score 50/100, but due to the instructor selecting the questions that were thrown out, her grade might increase to a77 or a 79, while the other student’s grade increased to an 80 or 82.nnThe Nursing program’s administrators seem to believe that in order to earn a degree, you must miss the right questions. If you are someone that tends to get the hard questions and miss some of the easy ones, then Crowder College Nursing Program is not for you.nnShe barely dropped below the necessary test average in that class, so was removed from the nursing program, despite the fact that she passed her other courses with flying colors. This was followed by a re-admission test, which of course costs $50, which she failed by another slight percentage. She took another class designed to help prepare for the re-entrance exam. She passed the class with an A, well above her classmates. Come readmission time (another $50), she failed both the required tests, the first a HALF point below the requirement and the other two points below. Apparently their readmissions tests are much harder than any of their courses. Crowder College’s Nursing Program administrators don’t believe in second chances. In fact, they don’t seem to have a concept of what is fair in any sense.nnPerhaps it is the difference between a CIS program and a Nursing program, but I believe such treatment to be downright unprofessional. One of her instructors even made the comment that perhaps the reason for her low grade was due to her age. That’s a protected class and grounds for a lawsuit. Unfortunately, she is too sweet to go through with something like that. Instead, Crowder College at McDonald County has her believing she is too old and too stupid to go back to school and do what she loves, which is helping and caring for others. I would rather tell my children not to go to college than see them attend a nursing program here.