Could you please help me to get meaning of this sentence?
Could you please help me to get meaning of this sentence?
"We mandate that students complete a lab on our campus to support them with that work" - what does it mean? What lab is it said about? How can you complete a lab?
The context:
Additionally, we mandate that students take dual enrollment courses, so that they earn high school credit while simultaneously earning college credit. And I emphasize the word mandate. Then, we learned a lesson from last semester,
and we now also mandate that students complete a lab on our campus to support them with that work; to ensure that what they summit is college-level work.
(The text itself is about prepairing teenagers after high school for college. The author of that speech is a founder of a charter school in the USA.)
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Thank you!
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A "lab" in this context is usually a supplemental, hands-on course taken with a regular class (sort of like practice). A lab reinforces what students learn in the regular class. So as Sresht said, the gist of the sentence is: they are making it mandatory for students to take the "lab" course to reinforce/support their regular class work, so that they submit higher quality work.
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What it basically means is that the College authorities INSIST that students complete a lab along with their regular course so that it serves as a support. What 'lab' they are talking about is not specific, rather it is said in a general sense. And here when they say lab, its not the lab itself, but a course in the lab that one must complete. Hope its clear now!
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