Posted on 01/02/2026 12:10:47 PM PST by Morgana
Harvard is not cheap. Attending as an undergraduate costs $86,926 per year. On top of that, Harvard vacuums up staggering sums of taxpayer money, despite receiving $billions per year in donations and sitting on an endowment of $57 billion. But at least the students are learning something besides LGBTism, Critical Race Theory, and how to hate America.
The New York Post reported last spring:
The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently arriving on campus lacking “foundational skills” in high school math basics like geometry and algebra.
Why is it that students at America’s most prestigious university need to take high school level math courses? DEI is why.
Had these students studied for the SATs — which, according to the College Board website, tests them on four “areas of math that play the biggest role in college and career success: algebra, advanced math, problem solving . . . and geometry” — they wouldn’t need Math MA.
Math MA is what they call the remedial course.
Instead, many of them probably bombed on the math SAT or skipped the whole thing altogether, taking advantage of the fact that Harvard scrapped the standardized testing requirement during the pandemic.
As with a lot of moonbattery that was pushed through on the pretext of Covid, the lack of an SAT requirement outlived the virus.
Harvard was capitulating to the pressure of those who insisted standardized testing is a vestige of racism and argued that scrapping the process altogether would advance equity.
You don’t need to know math if you claim membership in an identity group lucky enough to be “marginalized.”
You probably don’t need to pay the full tuition either. No doubt taxpayers end up picking up much of the tab for DEI students.
Harvard hauls in its mountains of money by banking on its prestige — which it has been frittering away for the sake of moonbattery. The school was forced into a course correction:
To Harvard’s credit, the school announced in April last year that it is finally bringing back standardized testing requirements for the class of 2031.
However,
While Harvard has seen the light, elite colleges like Columbia, Princeton, Vanderbilt and Duke are still clinging to their test-optional policies.
Let’s hope these other pricey schools offer remedial math too.
Yes.
Remove the tax exemptions. F**K harvard and all the other liberal elite universities.
No federal tax payer funds should go to any educational institution ever for any reason.
All welfare systems should be eliminated, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security etc. they all need to be phased out and eliminated.
You either make it on your own or you don’t. You’re not my problem or the governments problem, you’re your own problem.
The students taking these classes are A. DEI/affirmative action "minorities" who are there to fill race quotas, B. members of the football and basketball teams, who are there for brawn, not brains, C. legacy students, who are there because their parents and/or grandparents attended and gave the university a lot of money.
I once looked up the definition of “remedial”.
It’s Bad. It means something is broken.
no problem, as long as they don't have to master operations with signed integers or fractions
Remedial Math is important to these Harvard students because they don’t only understand the word remedial; but also math. You got to talk to them like this: “Bill wants to buy 6 bullets to shoot an ICE officer. He has 3 left over from shooting two of his neighbours. Bullets cost money, how is going to get the money?” Bill say: “Yo, I blingety dingity and shot them all in their homes, where they sleep. That is how.”
Quite the opposite of the typical Republican, who is the embodiment of pusillanimity.
So, Harvard’s like community college now?
I pity those families who actually paid for a Harvard diploma back in the day, or who donated to what has become a limbo contest—how low can you go?
Yes. Well said, Jeff.
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