Surprise: The Kiddies Cannot Do Basic Math, Per Report

Maybe schools, run mostly by Democrats, with mostly Democrat teachers, should teach the basics and forget about the Woke, DEI, trans, and climate scam, among others

College kids’ math skills worse than ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck public schools

What happens when a child is promoted, grade by grade, through America’s K-12 school system but can’t actually perform at grade level in reading, writing or math?

As the University of California at San Diego found, they get into college — and become someone else’s problem.

UC San Diego’s Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions released a startling report last week documenting a steep decline in college preparedness.

Between 2020 and 2025, it found, the number of freshmen with math skills below middle-school level “increased nearly thirtyfold” — with about one in eight of them unable to handle even the most basic high school math.

The university has had to add a new course devoted exclusively to teaching “elementary and middle school Common Core math subjects (grades 1-8)” — in addition to the remedial math classes it already had in place covering high school topics like algebra and geometry.

College students having to take courses in elementary school math? Should they be in college? Oh, right, Dem colleges want the kiddies to take out all those loans which help out the loan companies who donate to Democrats

How does any child graduate from high school not knowing how to do basic math?

How basic? In 2023, 13% of students who took a UC San Diego math assessment could not perform at first-grade level, and 25% of kids got the equation 7 + 2 = [ ] + 6 wrong.

This is terrifying — and the worst part is how inevitable the collapse has been.

Every year we watch as teachers’ unions get more powerful, test scores decline, and our states shovel more and more money into failed schools.

This is a Democrat problem. They run the schools.

This was a giant error, as Harvard University found: In 2024, it too had to add a remedial class for incoming freshmen who lacked “foundational skills” in basic high school math, after admitting them without a standardized measure of their readiness for college.

Harvard. Think on that. This is insane.