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Posted on 12/03/2025 6:29:09 AM PST by DFG
The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found.
Even more shocking — many of the students can’t even do middle-school level math, meaning their skills are fifth grade or below.
Experts say this phenomenon, combined with steadily rising high school graduate rates, show that the country is suffering a massive grade inflation problem.
The University of California San Diego, for instance, has reported a staggering 30-fold increase in the number of students unable to do basic arithmetic over the last five years.
“A lot of data in education is subject to manipulation. You can raise graduation rates. You can give a kid a grade he or she may not really have earned,” said Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow and education expert with the American Enterprise Institute.
“You can literally declare a kid a graduate.”
“The incentives are in the system to make ourselves look good,” he told The Post. “High GPA, high graduation rate, etcetera — when it’s a mirage.”
The UC San Diego example is particularly stark. Just 30 of the school’s incoming freshmen had below high school level math skills in 2020. But in 2025 that number rose to 900, the Atlantic reported, citing a shocking November study released by faculty.
That’s one in eight incoming freshmen who are unable to meet basic high school math standards — for a school that takes just 30% of applicants.
All of the students also have to have passing grades in high school math curriculum required by the University of California school system.
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NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND == CERTAINLY HAS MANY MEANINGS
FLASH CARDS NEED TO MAKE A COMEBACK.
ANYONE COMPANY WILLING TO START MAKING THEM AGAIN WILL MAKE A FORTUNE
“No child left behind!, no child left behind. Oh really? It wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving children a head start. Head Start-Left Behind. Someone’s losing f___ing ground here.”
- George Carlin
I DO NOT HAVE THE WORDS TO DESCRIBE HOW THANKFUL I AM THAT I WENT TO A ONE ROOM SCHOOL.
We also hear that GenZ is being attracted more and more to demagogues like Nick Fuentes.
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Yeah it's probably unrelated. /sarc
This sounds like ‘gain of dysfunction’ of a certain “mind virus”.
The Democrats destroyed the education of an entire generation after COVID hit - and they never get blamed for it.
Rumor has it President Trump promised to get rid of the DoEd during his second term. At this point all his administration has to do is ask Congress to pass an abolish bill.
We are still waiting.
ABE LINCOLN IS A GOOD EXAMPLE, IMO
Maybe all we need is a new Congress that wouldn’t need to be motivated by a President to act.
Let’s be reminded that Congress had us endure two hoax impeachments not too long ago..
Against this same President.
We eventually learned we didn’t need anything but a new President to make a difference.
Maybe we need a new Congress.
And they aren’t going to obliterate and drain themselves apparently.
So, we all have to wait for a New Congress that isn’t a Swamp.
Maybe the prosecution of criminals in Congress is the sign we can actually get a New Congress some day in the future.
And see real change for once.
We are still waiting for that, too.
The same parents who insist their kids should get an A even though they didn’t do the work, and didn’t even show up for class?
Here’s a good thread from the Reddit Teachers forum:
Evidently, some of the kids know what they don’t know.
G. Gordon Liddy was right. Bad education system.
This is a natural result of living in an affluent, lazy society where stupidity and ignorance don’t have life-threatening — or even lifestyle-threatening — consequences.
As long as teachers get their pay raises, everything’s fine.
Well, if you are not taught “addition, subtraction and multiplication”, you won’t have the ability to see how over-taxed you are being by your government.
And, if you can’t read or write, you won’t be able to complain about how lousy your idiotcation was.
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