STEM professors in California tired of teaching stupid kids for 'equity'

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Sometime around 2020’s “summer of love,” when violent left-wing activists were destroying, burning and looting minority communities over the death of George Floyd, the UC school system thought it would be a good idea to ditch the SAT/ACT admissions requirement.

In fact, around 700 additional universities joined the UC university system in going “test optional,” nearly doubling the total number of test-optional higher learning institutions in the US from 1,000 to 1,700.

There was good reason for this, they said, because test-taking facilities were closing under pandemic conditions and many students would not even be able to take the exams.

At the time, various black and “latinx” activist orgs hailed the decision as a victory for “equitable admissions.” They’d waged a decade-long campaign to institute racial quotas and to water down or outright abolish admissions requirements.

To them, relying on (racially aggrieved) personal essays and (wildly inflated) public school GPAs was enough.

Now, six years later, STEM professors awash under a human tidal wave of literal stupidity have decided to take action.

A whopping 720 named signatories, mostly from UC Berkeley, but also San Diego, UCLA, Irvine, Davis and Santa Barbara, have published a document demanding a return to test taking. Their disciplines range from math to physics to computer science to engineering.

According to the letter, so many students entering STEM schools aren’t even literate in middle school math.

Yes, you read that correctly. Students entering California’s premiere higher learning school system for science and technology are not doing math adequately enough to pass eighth grade.

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