How many of these students took the SAT? I’d love to know what the average scores were. I don’t know how you could cheat on the SAT as easily as you can cheat on the Regents.
Good question. The SAT and ACT have been horribly dumbed down over the last decade, but you still have to be able to read and solve problems quickly to get a decent score. Kids that can't read well should not do well on the English and Science parts, and kids that need a calculator to find 2 + 2 should not do well on the math.
Colleges are becoming “SAT optional”; they’ll simply ignore it so uneducated fake students can attend.
My children described teachers offering grade increases if students would bring in cans of food for food drives. It is all a sham; only children with motivated parents will be educated (in spite of, not because of, the education industry) - and then they’ll have to deal with the envy - and voting patterns - of their less-motivated classmates.