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1 posted on 01/02/2026 12:10:47 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Right about now it looks like America has hit rock bottom.


2 posted on 01/02/2026 12:16:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Morgana
Ping me when they can do differential and integrative calculus

Spokeshave who tought advanced placement pure and applied mathematics.

5 posted on 01/02/2026 12:22:14 PM PST by spokeshave ( Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads, Curmudgeons & old Geezers)
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To: Morgana

however, many colleges are unable to give students needing remedial math those classes

due to DEI regulations, the unprepared students have to be “mainstreamed” into regular college-level math classes

this results in...
DEI students being unable to close the gap and catch up with the class, so they do not learn but still get passed because progessors are graded on whether their student success statistics include full representation from DEI type students, if a professor’s statistics show that a “disproportionate” number of DEI students are failing or getting low grades, the profess is rating down down down on his/her job performance evaulation. The only way out for the professors is to simply award high marks to everyone and be done with it. Thus, the grading system is corrupted beyond any real utility and transcript GPA’s are garbage

other students getting less learning than they paid for...or maybe need... because the professors have to keep going backwards trying to provide the DEI students as much remedial help as possible during the class time (and outside of class too)

SNAFU


7 posted on 01/02/2026 12:31:48 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Morgana

Harvard had a hand in that coming about.


8 posted on 01/02/2026 12:34:19 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: Morgana

Circa 1966 I went to college and did not take remedial math. My high school was in South Louisiana Lockport. It was a very poor district. It graduated kids ready for college. Out of my class of 83 students were two pharmacists, 1 medical doctor, a PHD biologist, a research chemist at Exxon, and oddly the richest man in town was at the bottom of the class but understood business well. Rodney did good! Also a whole slew of other graduates in education and other courses. About half our class obtained college degrees. Not bad for a poor rural district in South Louisiana.

How in the hell can one be admitted to Harvard and need remedial math?


11 posted on 01/02/2026 12:58:39 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Morgana
Why is it that students at America’s ONCE most prestigious university need to take high school level math courses? DEI is why.

And it was predictable.

Any honest person of average intelligence or above knew what was going to happen.

15 posted on 01/02/2026 1:16:14 PM PST by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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Hay, maybe I can get A PHD from Harvard in Remedial Math.. That would be SO COOL.!
17 posted on 01/02/2026 1:19:34 PM PST by unread ("A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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Remove the tax exemptions. F**K harvard and all the other liberal elite universities.


22 posted on 01/02/2026 1:32:22 PM PST by onona
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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.


23 posted on 01/02/2026 1:36:52 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Morgana
A lot of universities, including allegedly "competitive" ones, teach math courses that most people took in high school, e.g. 2x + 5 = 15, find x. Or in some cases, they're struggling with 5 + 10 = ?

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.

24 posted on 01/02/2026 1:42:34 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Morgana

I once looked up the definition of “remedial”.
It’s Bad. It means something is broken.


25 posted on 01/02/2026 1:51:30 PM PST by Linda Tripp (America's Best Best Friend)
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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.”


28 posted on 01/02/2026 4:35:39 PM PST by BEJ
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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?


30 posted on 01/02/2026 6:42:07 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Richard Starkey)
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