Hmmm…I wonder why students are falling behind in basic classes…On Wednesday Hot Air ran an article headlined, “UC San Diego: Incoming Students Can’t Do Basic Math.”
Math professors are ringing alarm bells about the rapid and disastrous decline in students’ ability to do even basic math.
Almost 15% of incoming students cannot perform math at the 1st-grade level, and fewer than one out of five can perform math at the 8th-grade level.
These are college students at a fairly prestigious university, many of whom have achieved very good grades in math prior to graduation. They have been awarded good to great grades without being able to do the most basic math.
We’re not talking about students having trouble dealing with calculus or Algebra II. Many students cannot do basic addition and subtraction, and only 54% of incoming students can do 5th-grade math. It’s gotten to the point where professors in the STEM fields are overwhelmed and unable to provide college-level courses to students in…college.
The situation was awful before COVID, but it has rapidly deteriorated since. Students have not only failed to catch up to the poor level of achievement they displayed prior to the pandemic, but they continue to decline in ability.
Imagine the situation: a prestigious college is now having to teach nearly 20% of its students how to do 1st grade math, and about half need instruction to exceed the 5th-grade level. Only one out of five has even attained high-school level math literacy.
“Educators act surprised that students are falling behind in basic classes, and it’s their fault mostly.” said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based in Harrison, Arkansas with members throughout America and beyond. “There are several reasons why kids today aren’t receiving a quality education, and I’ll mention just two. First, how can kids be taught basic studies such as Math, History, English, etc. when the school systems are more worried about indoctrinating little Jack by telling him that maybe God made him the wrong sex at birth, and it’s possible that he can become little Jill by the wave wand, or telling him how bad it is to be White, and he should be ashamed of his Whiteness and hate his ancestors for doing what many countries were doing at the time. And the second reason reason being dumbing little White Jack down to the level of little black Sha’NayNay so she can look just as smart as little White Jack. Which in fact that is what happens when White kids are not allowed to reach their full academic potential because they are being told it’s racist for White people to be able to achieve at higher levels and get the better jobs, the better housing, etc. These are just two examples of why kids aren’t learning anything today. What did they expect would happen?”
