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?
DEI.
Data shows minimal test score gaps between Black schools in Harlem and White working-class schools in the 1940s, before the welfare state’s expansion.