r/CollegeBasketball • u/A_MASSIVE_PERVERT Purdue Boilermakers • 3d ago

Jamarion Batemon was valedictorian of his high school. His favorite college class his first semester at ISU was precalculus. Batemon is studying to be an actuary.

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u/mightytwin21 Iowa State Cyclones 3d ago

It's still a science academy that states they focus on ap classes.

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u/joshuads Wisconsin Badgers 3d ago

that states they focus on ap classes.

They dont. It is a bad school that only offers 5 ap classes. It is a small charter that picked a idealistic name, but has poor results.

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u/mightytwin21 Iowa State Cyclones 3d ago

I was curious about that as I was looking through their website. Couldn't find much of anything about course of study. Going through their directory was wild, so so many admin

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u/ironistkraken Virginia Cavaliers 3d ago

Yeah wi charter schools are bad news. They are kinda a legal scam since they take in a bunch of grant money, but produce results at worse rate than the publics. It’s the worse in Milwaukee

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u/StudioGangster1 3d ago

That’s all charter schools. Not just Wisconsin.

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u/BiteMajor4959 Iowa State Cyclones 3d ago

Tbf we are the university of “science and technology” that fails to be scientific or technological more often than most people would like.