[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

But they scored very high in “self-esteem!”

[MrB]

Ask them about homo “marriage” and global warming, though...

[cuban leaf]

I’m sure they’re all evolutionists anyway.

[Tzimisce]

But they can tell us why this test is racist.....

[alpo]

Too many Amish in the schools.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

All institutions in “The Golden State” are collapsing. Sad!

[Izzy Dunne]

Why do you think the Beach Boys sang: "I wish they all could be California girls..?"

[Real Cynic No More]

Unfortunately, a good portion of those who failed will go on to study political science and then go to work for the plethora of government organizations that establish policies and develop regulations that are supposedly based on scientific principles.

I’m depressed.

[kingu]

Must mean that the teachers are gearing up for yet another grab at the public treasury - as of course, all that is holding back these students is a lack of benefits for California’s teachers...

[mosaicwolf]

The 20% that did well were likely home schooled or went to a private school.

[RavenLooneyToon]

Wow man, 2 parts Jamaican, mix with 3 parts Colombian, and mix it up real good. Then the science gets rad man. ‘Cause you take a whole pound of butter and you melt it man, you do that with fire or the glowing red circles on the top of an electric stove, but you have to put the stuff in a pan first, or you get big mess, I know ‘cause I've done it man, takes way more work to clean it if ya’ melt the butter without a pan, man. The after that you...ummm...what was I talking about man?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

A comment on the story—

“14000 is a huge sample size. Using a total population of 3 million a confidence level of 99% (extremely accurate) and a confidence interval of 1 requires a sample of 16549 students. The superintendent is a liar or doesn’t know anything about statistics or both.”

Maybe that is why California is in 47th place in science.

The teachers do not know the subject.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

It’s hard to learn when the teacher speaks English and the kids only speak a the spanish.

[wac3rd]

Dibershitty is ower stwenght

[Pontiac]

California needs to spend more money on education, isn’t it obvious?!

They need lower teacher to student ratios.

/S

Any teacher will tell you that

[C19fan]

/src on/Who cares about science. It is much more important to for CA kids to know the life story of Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk and how to use the recycling bins./src off/

[mo]

The Detroitification of a once wealthy and powerful state is almost complete...

[drypowder]

I’m not advocating this but if the test were printed in Spanish, maybe the students would’ve done better

[ElkGroveDan]

It's a misleading headline since it talks about all California students. However there is a chasm between the scores of private/parochial school and the government education camps.

Meanwhile my fifth grade son whop attends a private Christian school designed his own electrolysis experiment to extract chlorine from salt water. He went through a trial and error process until he had success and then went back and identified the contaminants and precipitates in his failed trials and explained why those reactions occurred.

[thethirddegree]

Between the queers and the illegal immigrants, what do you expect?