According to new data from the Census Bureau, California is the least educated state in America. It ranked number one for the percentage of those over 25-years-old who have never completed ninth grade.
Plus, it ranked 50th for the percentage who have graduated from high school.
https://www.kusi.com/california-ranked-as-the-least-educated-state-in-the-country/
A good friend of mine was a math teacher. One year out of college, he got a job teaching math at a public high school in Virginia. This was about 10 years ago. He was very excited to start his new job!
Well, they give him classes mainly made up of recent immigrant children. Few of them could speak English. And they had very poor math backgrounds. But my friend tried hard anyway.
No surprise...his students scored well below average on the state’s standardized math tests. Someone had to pay for this! So my friend got fired.
What do you think? Was it his fault that his scores were so low?