<p>^ I would prefer instead of “IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH A CLASS, DROP IT” that students who are having trouble with a class be advised: “IF THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF PASSING A COURSE NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY AND YOU HAVE NO INTENTION OF EVER REGISTERING FOR THIS CLASS AGAIN THEN YOU MAY DROP IT”</p>
<p>A student who registers for a class and then drops a class halfway through the semester has already deprived one other student, who might have successfully completed the course, an opportunity to earn credits they need to transfer and should not be allowed to take the opportunity to register for the class and take it away from yet another student in need of that class the following semester. In this era of austere budgets and long wait lists at CCCs a student should only be allowed one attempt to take a course, particularly impacted ones like Math and Science classes. I would not be surprised if one of the reasons it is so difficult to get into these classes at a CCC is because there are so many students who manage to get into it, do not like the grade they think they are going to get and take a W in it half way through the semester, only to register for the same class again for the following semester and then do the same thing all over again.</p>