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.
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Right about now it looks like America has hit rock bottom.
Anyone needing remedial Math or English courses, either reading or writing, should not be in college.
Not even close to rock bottom.
The second half of the video discusses Canada—with lots of details I have not seen discussed anywhere else:
This former paradise has declined so far that doctors are now telling white elderly patients that the patients need to request euthanasia because it is the patriotic thing to do—saves precious national resources that need to be reserved for (read nonwhite) others.
Spokeshave who tought advanced placement pure and applied mathematics.
Isn’t this what they called “Bonehead math” and “Bonehead English” when I was in college? Usually the class was like a 095 number and you didn’t get credit for it. You had to take it if your SAT or ACT was too low and this helped with higher classes.
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
Harvard had a hand in that coming about.
He said that he used numerical modeling to modify the Ethernet protocol's handling of packet collisions (the random wait time before trying to retransmit). I never used that for my code writing. LOL But I've called on those skills a few times with some of my data reporting.
They aren’t...in colleges with standards.
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?
Harvard stopped being a part of any success of the United States a long time ago. It's been a globalist center of Anti-American mindset for more than a century.
Or geochemistry which is really thermodynamic chemistry at depth with great overburden pressures and temperatures. That course was a bitch. Only five of us signed up for the course. We all got an A and deserved it. The final was a “take home exam” with two weeks until due, and the professor knew we would work together on super bitch problems. He also knew we would all learn much from this.
Unusual things happen at extreme pressures and temperatures. A triple point phase diagram defies common sense but it is real.
Or geochemistry which is really thermodynamic chemistry at depth with great overburden pressures and temperatures. That course was a bitch. Only five of us signed up for the course. We all got an A and deserved it. The final was a “take home exam” with two weeks until due, and the professor knew we would work together on super bitch problems. He also knew we would all learn much from this.
Unusual things happen at extreme pressures and temperatures. A triple point phase diagram defies common sense but it is real.
And it was predictable.
Any honest person of average intelligence or above knew what was going to happen.
DEI.
Only "woke" America, and it has not bottomed out.
The rest of America is ascendant, honest, intelligent, well educated, strong, puissant, and healthy, and President Trump is its champion!
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.
You made me look a word up.
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